| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: morning, after the sun was well up, Saduko, as a great chief does, sent
forward two bedizened heralds to announce his approach to Umbezi, after
whom followed two other men to sing his deeds and praises. (By the way,
I observed that they had clearly been instructed to avoid any mention of
a person called Macumazahn.) Then we advanced in force. First went
Saduko, splendidly apparelled as a chief, carrying a small assegai and
adorned with plumes, leglets and a leopard-skin kilt. He was attended
by about half a dozen of the best-looking of his followers, who posed as
"indunas" or councillors. Behind these I walked, a dusty, insignificant
little fellow, attended by the ugly, snub-nosed Scowl in a very greasy
pair of trousers, worn-out European boots through which his toes peeped,
Child of Storm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: hardly anything left out of the money which he
had stolen.
XIV
IVAN MIRONOV had become a very clever, fear-
less and successful horse-thief. Afimia, his wife,
who at first used to abuse him for his evil ways,
as she called it, was now quite content and felt
proud of her husband, who possessed a new sheep-
skin coat, while she also had a warm jacket and
a new fur cloak.
In the village and throughout the whole dis-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: boy's closing sentence which fixed my attention wholly, took it away from
Kill-devil Bombo and my Aunt Carola's commission, for the execution of
which I now held the clue, and sent me puzzling for the right
interpretation of his words:--
"I believe that you will help your friend by that advice which startled
me last night, but which I now begin to see more in than I did. Only
between alternate injuries, he may find it harder to choose which is the
least he can inflict, than you, who look on, find it. For in following
your argument, he benefits himself so plainly that the benefit to the
other person is very likely obscured to him. But, if you wish to, tell
him a Southern gentleman would feel he ought to be shot either way.
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