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Next to her grief over Kara was her disappointment in regard to her summer's work. Miss Mason had agreed that she might try for a Merit Badge as an artist during their camp. Surely she had sufficient talent to have won it. She had looked forward to having an arm filled with worth-while sketches of her outdoor summer to show her father upon his return to Westhaven.
She descended the brown-stone steps, paused once to look back upon the old home where she had been taught to love pleasure above the worth-while things of life, then came on to the waiting limousine, being greeted here by the young man with the earnest forehead who had won her to the better way.
To know that the haunting fear is gone that the shackles have fallen away, the chains are broken. To know that you are free delivered from bondage. What a feeling what a sensation Living itself is worth-while. Life means more. The sun shines brighter, the grass is greener, the flowers are more beautiful while friends and relatives seem closer, kinder and dearer than ever before.
He had thought her spoiled and superficial, yet possessing undoubtedly worth-while qualities, such as pluck and honesty things you cannot be deceived in. Now he was finding another side to the girl; a something very sweet and lovable. Was he being led away by the eye of man which is troubled by many things, or was the better side of the girl coming to the surface under different conditions?
"No, but after all, what does a spoiled society girl of twenty-four know about a worth-while man, anyhow?" "Oh, my dear Henry, wake up! You aren't living in the Victorian period. She knows a lot more about everything than you think, and well for her that she does.
When we think of the shortness of life, and how, even so, we might improve our minds by study between getting up and breakfast, dressing, as educators are beginning to say of the long summer vacation, seems a sheer 'wastage of education'; yet the plain truth is that we wouldn't get up. Better, if we can, to think while we dress, pausing to jot down our worth-while thoughts on a handy tablet.
"People expect so much more of boys and are never satisfied with what we do, while you girls have your paths strewn with roses." "Listen to him talk!" exclaimed Shirley. "I guess we girls have to struggle to live." "And what girl wants her path strewn with roses anyway?" demanded Bet in disgust. "I want to have to fight my way, I want to do worth-while things.
Like all worth-while institutions, the American Escadrille, of which I have the honour of being a member, was of gradual growth. When the war began, it is doubtful whether anybody anywhere envisaged the possibility of an American entering the French aviation service.
As he talked Baxter stepped to the outer door and locked it. It was too late to expect any worth-while business. The Spider, who was in reality looking for Baxter, whom he suspected of trickery, opened the lavatory door far enough to see into the main room. In a flash he had placed three of the four men who "wanted" him.
To the large majority of the victims of the disease it is a severe shock to find out what ails them. Many of them, without saying much about it, give up all hope for a worth-while life from the moment they learn of their condition.
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