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Title: The Creators
A Comedy

Author: May Sinclair

Release Date: July 4, 2008 [eBook #25971]

Language: English

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THE CREATORS

A Comedy

by

MAY SINCLAIR

Author of "The Divine Fire," "The Helpmate," Etc.

With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller

New York
The Century Co.
1910

Copyright, 1909, 1910, by
The Century Co.

Published, October, 1910

[Illustration: "To the book!" she said. "To Nina Lempriere's book! You
can drink now, George."]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"To the book!" she said. "To Nina Lempriere's book! You can drink now,
George."

"How any one can be unkind to dumb animals," said Rose, musing.

"Why do you talk about my heart?"

Jane started at this sudden voice of her own thought.

"And he," she said, "has still a chance if I fail you?"

She had wrung it from him, the thing that six days ago he had come to
her to say.

It was Jinny who lay there, Jinny, his wife.

"Ah," she cried, "try not to hate me!"

"George," she said ... "I love you for defending him"

She closed her eyes, "I'm quite happy"

Jane stood in the doorway, quietly regarding them.

THE CREATORS

I

Three times during dinner he had asked himself what, after all, was he
there for? And at the end of it, as she rose, her eyes held him for the
first time that evening, as if they said that he would see.

She had put him as far from her as possible, at the foot of her table
between two of the fo