| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: good-tempered, and full of fun ; but he thinks he is too old
to begin to learn new and uncomfortable ways, and he has
that horror of being made better by his wife that distinguishes
so many righteous men, and is shared by the Man of Wrath,
who persists in holding his glass in his left hand at meals,
because if he did not (and I don't believe he particularly
likes doing it) his relations might say that marriage has
improved him, and thus drive the iron into his soul.
This habit occasions an almost daily argument between one
or other of the babies and myself.
"April, hold your glass in your right hand."
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine,
The warmer heart will not belie;
While mirth and truth, and friendship shine
In smiling lip and earnest eye.
The ice that gathers round my heart
May there be thawed; and sweetly, then,
The joys of youth, that now depart,
Will come to cheer my soul again.
Though far I roam, that thought shall be
My hope, my comfort everywhere;
While such a home remains to me,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: prosper. I commented to Dick upon the difference between this part of
Penetier and the hideous slash we had left.
"There were a couple of Government markers went through here and marked the
timber to be cut," said Dick.
"Was the timber cut in the mill I saw?"
"No. Buell's just run up that mill. The old one is out here a ways, nearer
Holston."
"Is it possible, Dick, that any of those loggers back there don't know the
Government is being defrauded?"
"Ken, hardly any of them know it, and they wouldn't care if they did. You
see, this forest-preserve business is new out here. Formerly the lumbermen
The Young Forester |
