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  • Fate's Warning (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
Fate's Warning (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
The woman was a countess, and just because all the countesses you've known were "proud and haughty" you must not think she was that kind of a lady. On the contrary, in spite of all fate did to prevent it, she was a human being, a sweet, ...See moreThe woman was a countess, and just because all the countesses you've known were "proud and haughty" you must not think she was that kind of a lady. On the contrary, in spite of all fate did to prevent it, she was a human being, a sweet, sympathetic, pulsating heart-woman. She loved the world and the things and the beings thereof; she was five feet five of humanity and humility. So naturally she loved music. Often she went to a little gypsy music garden, this happened in Europe, to see and hear life as it pushed by with its songs and throngs, to drink wine and in the red forgetfulness still remember that she was lonesome, to listen to the haunting, seductive gypsy music that interprets life as a rushing, roaring sea, with the sweet low murmur of a lazy brook thrilling its way throughout. Those nights her soul was swept away with the exotic, ecstatic songs of the sentimental gypsy maids and the strong, bold gypsy men. And there her soul began to hunger for the arms and lips of the gypsy. Often she met him, and in his kisses was the strife of senses, and in his arms her troubled heart found peace. Then he urged her to fly with him. With a suggestion that could not be stifled, with a premonition of impending and imminent disaster, she went to a gypsy fortune teller to gaze into the vale of veiled years. And she looked into the crystal ball, and she saw. She saw her womanhood dragged down to the level of the lost, saw herself wending the streets with her gypsy, singing his songs for a coin and a laugh. She saw his love change into the realization of possession, into despotic mastery, into brute tyranny. She saw tears and sneers, pain and stain, hunger and hate. That night when he came she told him that which avoided the future and averted its sorrows. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Phillips Smalley
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Updated May 2, 1912
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May 2, 1912 (United States)

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