Excerpt from White Rose of Weary Leaf
Three or four early impressions, the fewer the more indelible, some things seen and chance words heard, influence character to a degree out of all proportion to their importance. Picturesque, trivial, grotesque or poignant, as they may be, they are imprinted on a fresh white unscored surface, and some of the twists and deviations of the line that stands for character are determined.
Amy Steevens was a common person's child - a unit of no particular ethical value; and she lived with her humble parents in a mouse-ridden villa in a country town. Next to her own people, the mice were the most important things in the house. She dared not object to these familiar fauna, for her busy mother would have laughed at her. So she fell in with the circumstances of her environment and took an intelligent interest in the colours of the mice that early in the summer mornings ran in a procession across the flap of the sheet in front of her chin. She saw them large as race-horses, dun and ginger-coloured, cheerful beasts, who coursed freely past, taking no notice of the goggle eyes of Amy, fixed on them, as she lay in bed, afraid to be afraid.
An only child, she was of necessity unattended, and was often sent out to play in the field behind the house by herself.
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