We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly

part forever. Others are bending over cradles, kissing babies that are asleep.

Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting from those who

hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing; and

some are talking with wives, and endeavoring with brave words spoken in the old

tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the

wife standing in the door, with the babe in her arms--standing in the sunlight

sobbing; at the turn of the road a hand waves--she answers by holding high in

her loving hands the child. He is gone--and forever.

 

--ROBERT J. INGERSOLL, _to the Soldiers of Indianapolis_.

 

8. Where would you pause in the following selections? Try pausing in different

places and note the effect it gives.

 

The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on: nor all your piety nor wit

shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of

it.

 

The history of womankind is a story of abuse. For ages men beat, sold, and

abused their wives and daughters like cattle. The Spartan mother that gave birth

to one of her own sex disgraced herself; the girl babies were often deserted in

the mountains to starve; China bound and deformed their feet; Turkey veiled

their faces; America denied them equal educational advantages with men. Most of

the world still refuses them the right to participate in the government and