| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: came to him, crying, 'Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?' And
therewith Paul arrayed himself on the side of the Lord, and
thereafter was most mighty in the saving of souls. And even as
thou, Paul of Tarsus, even so do I work in the vineyard of the
Lord, bearing trials and tribulations, scoffs and sneers, stripes
and punishments, for His dear sake."
"Bring up the little bag with the tea and a kettle of water," he
called the next instant to his boatmen; "not forgetting the haunch
of cariboo and the mixing-pan."
When his men, converts by his own hand, had gained the bank, the
trio fell to their knees, hands and backs burdened with camp
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: come to a battle between thee and thy father's enemy; for there
lieth no half-way place for thee, and thou must be either great
or else nothing. Well, sir, the time hath now come for thee to
show thy mettle. I would rather have chosen that thou hadst
labored a twelvemonth longer; but now, as I said, hath come a
chance to prove thyself that may never come again. Sir James
tells me that thou art passably ripe in skill. Thou must now show
whether that be so or no. Hast thou ever heard of the Sieur de la
Montaigne?"
"Yea, my Lord. I have heard of him often," answered Myles. "It
was he who won the prize at the great tourney at Rochelle last
Men of Iron |
