Excerpt from The Beloved Who, looking on her face, has forgotten it? Who has wiped from his memory this image, which flickers through a thousand feet of film and is gone? The shadows of the theater are black: the rounded human heads sweep to the topmost gallery: the orchestra fills the dome with sound: the beam of light steals through the air to the screen... Music! Silence! The movies!.. Then she comes, casts a dark spell from her eyes, and the breath of an old passion moves over the audience, piercing deep in to many-folded hearts... Tears cloud the eager vision: and that tragic pang that is the glory of all glories stabs through the breast!.. Oh, that life were ever thus! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.