Vocations (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Vocations Winnie Curtin pounded the keyboard of the shining Bechstein. At school she had chosen as her motto age quod agis. It was written under her name in her many prayer books. It stared at her in large blue letters from the end rail of her bed. It was worked in blue silk on the linen cover of her dressing-table, and in blue wool on the reed matting at the back of her washstand. It was inscribed on the inner case of her watch, on the flaps of her purse and handbag. In spare moments she printed the words in blue on slips of white cardboard which she kept in the corner of her workbox, awaiting suitable use. The motto was pasted on the first page of the overture to the Huguenots, arranged for four hands, now in front of her, and inspired her treatment of the treble. Her lower nature preferred to play bass, but her motto impelled her to choose the more difficult part. Kitty preferred the treble, but Kitty did not realize the sacrificial uses of music. She played because she liked playing and not for the good of her soul. Winnie thumped, counted, frowned and wriggled. She struck a wrong note, gave an impatient exclamation, bit her lip and glanced apprehensively at the motto. She said an ejaculatory prayer to St. Stanislaus, to obtain for her the grace to do her allotted task wholeheartedly, but calmly. "Age quod agis, " she muttered fiercely through her white teeth. It was a favourite saying of St. Stanislaus, her favourite saint. Some day he would make her calm and collected like himself. Work and prayer were the great means, always to keep her hands busy, to keep her mind fixed on the things of God, and off the vanities of a wicked world... One, two, three. There, wrong again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.