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Title: Beyond The Rocks
A Love Story

Author: Elinor Glyn

Release Date: September 14, 2005 [EBook #16692]

Language: English

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_Beyond the Rocks_

[Illustration: Rodolph Valentino, as Lord Bracondale and Elinor Glyn,
the author.]

_Beyond the Rocks

A Love Story

by

Elinor Glyn

Author of
"Three Weeks"

With illustrations
From the Paramount Photo-Play

Produced by
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.

starring
Gloria Swanson with Rodolph Valentino

New York
The Macaulay Company_
Printed in the U.S.A.

ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE

Rodolph Valentino, as Lord Bracondale and Elinor Glyn, the
author _Frontispiece_

"She Wondered What Love Was--" 8

"Once Upon a Time There Was a Fairy Prince and Princess--" 96

What Could He Say to Her-- 314

_Beyond the Rocks_

I

The hours were composed mostly of dull or rebellious moments during the
period of Theodora's engagement to Mr. Brown. From the very first she
had thought it hard that she should have had to take this situation,
instead of Sarah or Clementine, her elder step-sisters, so much nearer
his age than herself. To do them justice, either of these ladies would
have been glad to relieve her of the obligation to become Mrs. Brown,
but Mr. Brown thought otherwise.

A young and beautiful wife was what he bargained for.

To enter a family composed of three girls--two of the first family, one
almost thirty and a second very plain--a father with a habit of
accumulating debts and obliged to live at Bruges and inexpensive foreign
sea-side towns, required a strong motive; and this Josiah Brown found
in the deliciously rounded, white velvet cheek of Theodora, the third
daughter, to say nothing of her slender gr