Anna Balmer Myers, Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites…
“ Amanda said after they had told each other the old, old story, “I’m so glad I kept my castles in Spain. When you went away and didn’t write I almost wrecked them purposely. I thought they’d go tumbling into ashes but somehow I braced them up again. Now they’re more beautiful than ever. I pity the people who own no castles in Spain, who have no dreams that won’t come true exactly as they dreamed. ”
Anna Balmer Myers, Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites…
“ At length Amanda turned to the stairs, followed by several eager, excited children.“Here,” called the mother, “Charlie, Emma, you just leave Amanda go up alone. It ain’t good for Mart to have so much company at once. I’ll leave you go up to-night.” They turned reluctantly and the girl started up the stairs alone, some power seeming to urge her on against her will.Martin Landis returned to consciousness through a shroud of enveloping shadows. What had happened? Why was a strange man winding bandages round his head? He raised an arm--it felt heavy. ”
Anna Balmer Myers, Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites…
“ I’ll hold on to my dreams even if I know they can never come true exactly as I dream them. I wouldn’t give up my castles in Spain. I’ll have them till I die. But, Martin, that automobile might have killed you!”“Nonsense. I’m just scratched a bit. I’ll be out of this in no time.”“That rascal of a Lyman--you thought I could marry him?”“I couldn’t believe it, yet he said so. Some liar, isn’t he?”“Yes, but not quite so black as you thought. He is going to marry a girl named Amanda, one from his college town, and they are going to live in California.” ”
