Castle School - Drawbridge Yearbook (Tarrytown, NY)

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Sfazrfhkzg Sfzzfeweizfs MISS BERRY has a large repertoire of quotations which she DOESN'T i neglect using on her pupils who dis- LIKE having lectures solely o QUOTATIONS f 1

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he erfziersigf gf flze mmm 66177 The weird fantasy of the night lured her on- through the crowded streets where the spirit of gaiety seemed to be dominant in the heart of every- one. The celebration was in full force. Hilarity ruled with a high hand. And why not! The city, that living and working place of pulsing masses of humanity, had lived, had struggled, for a hundred years, yet had thrived and its people had prospered. It was fitting that the birthday should be celebrated. But there was one heart that night in the crowds not in tune with the spirit of it all-one heart, in which first Inherent Ambition mocked at Common Sense, Common Sense leered at Ambition and then Duty wedged its way between them and set the tumultuous whole of it into riotous tossing again. That heart belonged to this slender bit of a golden haired girl who was winding her way in and out among the pleasure-makers. Nobody would have known that the figure was that of a girl, for nobody could see the golden hair beneath that tightly drawn hat4-nobody could imagine that a girl's body was concealed by that suit of men's clothes, that a girl's tender feet were almost lost in those heavy menis shoes. , She had clad herself in such clothes in a frantic effort to get away for a brief interval from home, from the preparations going on there for the Wedding, and from the smiling, knowing expressions ofthe servants. At least she thought they were knowing expressions. Such is Imagination! Its power is limitless, its versatility is amazing and it can conjure at a mo- ment's notice all sorts of information and suspicion to the mind over which it terrorizes. Well, it had an easy victim in Anne. Now please allow the humble author, who neces- sarily must know all things and who can, with a per- fect right and unpricked conscience dabble into the secrets of his day-dream people-I say, please al- low him to interrupt the thread of the story just long enough to tell you some secrets, so you will under- stand why Anne was a victim of Imagination. It was like this. Years and years before the two families had begun a friendship, which had grown to be a settled fact, about which there was no more doubt in their social realm than that the sun shines in the daytime and the stars at night. So everyone expected, when a son was born to the Verners and a daughter to the Selwyns, that some day the two would wed and be happy ever after, according to plan. Even the son and the daughter, the principals in this little comedy of ambitions, grew up with the arrangement as a settled thing in their minds. Anne was resigned and Bob was resigned the said in his letters from Parisi so, when they had reached the proper age, wedding plans had been begun by the families. ' ' Oh, foolish mortals! How often We disregard the power and the rights of love in the hearts of a man and a maiden! So these two were to be married in a week, as soon as Bob should return from abroad, where he had spent five years. The bridegroom would return just in time for the wedding. Now you may think that things went on smoothly. Quite the contrary, something happened and that something was Anne's awakening to the fact that she had no real feeling of love for the almost stranger whom she was expected to marry-for instance as Corel, her friend, had for her husband. She hadn't thought much about it before, but now that she had paused in the whirl of society long enough to bother to think seriously about it, the realization had come like a bolt out ofa clear sky. It had turned her state of half-interestedness into onelof dismayed unrest. She hadn't been able to sleep. She had required con- tinuous feverish excitement and it was this that had put the very unconventional idea into her head of go- ing into the streets on this night of celebration. All of which brings us back to the girl wending 5