| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: me is terribly embarrassing. You know I have all the keys of the
Hall except the brewery and the tenants' kitchen. I give out all
stores and the linen and plate.'
'How jolly! I love store-rooms and giving out things.'
Ah, it's a great responsibility, you'll find, when you come to
my age. Last year Dad said I was fatiguing myself with my duties,
and he actually wanted me to give up the keys to old Amoore, our
housekeeper. I wouldn't. I hate her. I said, "No, sir. I am Mistress
of Marklake Hall just as long as I live, because I'm never going to
be married, and I shall give out stores and linen till I die!"
And what did your father say?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: here's a note was brought this morning for you by a boy.'
Stephen eagerly took the note and opened it, his mother watching
him. He read what Elfride had written and sent before she started
for the cliff that afternoon:
'Yes; I will meet you in the church at nine to-night.--E. S.'
'I don't know, Stephen,' his mother said meaningly, 'whe'r you
still think about Miss Elfride, but if I were you I wouldn't
concern about her. They say that none of old Mrs. Swancourt's
money will come to her step-daughter.'
'I see the evening has turned out fine; I am going out for a
little while to look round the place,' he said, evading the direct
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: knights of a new, or rather an old, order--not Equestrians or
Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more
ancient and honorable class, I trust. The Chivalric and heroic
spirit which once belonged to the Rider seems now to reside in,
or perchance to have subsided into, the Walker--not the Knight,
but Walker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of
Church and State and People.
We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble
art; though, to tell the truth, at least if their own assertions
are to be received, most of my townsmen would fain walk
sometimes, as I do, but they cannot. No wealth can buy the
Walking |
