| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: not be so--but the rose--the rose is in the box still! When my faith in
woman grows dim, and it seems that for want of love and magnanimity she can
play no part in any future heaven; then the scent of that small withered
thing comes back:--spring cannot fail us.
Matjesfontein,
South Africa.
III. "THE POLICY IN FAVOUR OF PROTECTION--".
Was it Right?--Was it Wrong?
A woman sat at her desk in the corner of a room; behind her a fire burnt
brightly.
Presently a servant came in and gave her a card.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: madman. "And who," said he, "is blameable for all my misfortunes
but myself, who have dealt with thee so kindly, and cared for
thee as no father before? Hence the perversity and contrariness
of thy mind, gathering strength by the licence that I gave thee,
hath made thy madness to fall upon mine own pate. Rightly
prophesied the astrologers in thy nativity that thou shouldest
prove a knave and villain, an impostor and rebellious son. But
now, if thou wilt make void my counsel, and cease to be my son, I
will become thine enemy, and entreat thee worse than ever man yet
entreated his foes."
Again said Ioasaph, "Why, O king, hast thou been kindled to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: before me. Could I but find a slender bit of steel I might yet
fashion a key that would give me ingress to the temple prison.
As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that
is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my
hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator.
As I was about to lay the thing aside as of no value in my
present predicament my eyes chanced upon a few strange characters
roughly and freshly scratched upon the soft gold of the case.
The Warlord of Mars |
