| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: paperweight, imparts a homely soupcon of farmyard life into one's
correspondence, you know. The P.M. had to give up reading my
letters- said they made him feel as if he'd gone to the country.
Ah, we are now within a stone's throw of the church- a noble
edifice, complete with one bell. Hullo! Stand by with that
ankle, lass; we're going to the doctor's. You'll like him
rather. Incompetent, but genial. Shouldn't wonder if he wants
to paint your foot. He is a bit of an artist in his way. When I
cut my head open last year, he painted the place all over with
some of his stuff. It certainly healed all right, but the way
the wasps followed me- I might have been a private view. Now for
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: headed wife for his son. The rest of the town, he
confided to her once, in a fit of temper, was certainly
queer. The way they looked at you--the way they
talked to you! He had never got on with any one
in the place. Didn't like the people. He would
not have left his own country if it had not been
clear that his son had taken a fancy to Colebrook.
She humoured him in silence, listening patiently
by the fence; crocheting with downcast eyes.
Blushes came with difficulty on her dead-white
complexion, under the negligently twisted opu-
To-morrow |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: with us, and yet see how they fall into line, and obey orders in the
promptest manner, even when such orders go right in the teeth of their
temporal interests.
"Yes," it will be replied by some, "this is all very excellent so far
as it relates to those who are altogether of your own way of thinking.
You can command them as you please, and they will obey, but what proof
have you given of your ability to control and discipline those who are
not of your way of thinking?
"You can do that with your Salvationists because they are saved, as you
call it. When men are born again you can do anything with them.
But unless you convert all the denizens of Darkest England, what chance
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
