| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: others, how astonished at all! On the whole however they
returned in raptures with the World, its Inhabitants, and
Manners.
Yrs Ever--A. F.
LETTER the SECOND
From a YOUNG LADY crossed in Love to her freind
Why should this last disappointment hang so heavily on my
spirits? Why should I feel it more, why should it wound me
deeper than those I have experienced before? Can it be that I
have a greater affection for Willoughby than I had for his
amiable predecessors? Or is it that our feelings become more
Love and Friendship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: out of the plain, hills of dark rock, sometimes in single knobs,
like Berwick Law or Stirling Crag--sometimes in noble ranges, like
Arthur's Seat, or the Sidlaws, or the Ochils. Think what these
black bare lumps of whinstone are, and what they do. Remember
they are mines--not gold mines, but something richer still--food
mines, which Madam How thrust into the inside of the earth, ages
and ages since, as molten lava rock, and then cooled them and
lifted them up, and pared them away with her ice-plough and her
rain-spade, and spread the stuff of them over the wide carses
round, to make in that bleak northern climate, which once carried
nothing but fir-trees and heather, a soil fit to feed a great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: From the summit of Arthur's Seat, Nell, your eyes shall behold
the sun appear above the horizon seaward."
They entered the King's Park, then, gradually ascending they passed
across the Queen's Drive, a splendid carriageway encircling the hill,
which we owe to a few lines in one of Sir Walter Scott's romances.
Arthur's Seat is in truth only a hill, seven hundred and fifty
feet high, which stands alone amid surrounding heights.
In less than half an hour, by an easy winding path, James Starr
and his party reached the crest of the
crouching lion, which, seen from the west, Arthur's Seat so
much resembles. There, all four seated themselves; and James Starr,
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