| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: murderer of my sister!"
"You have named me but too truly," said Ravenswood, in a hollow
and tremulous voice.
"If you repent what you have done," said the Colonel, "may your
penitence avail you before God; with me it shall serve you
nothing. Here," he said, giving a paper, "is the measure of my
sword, and a memorandum of the time and place of meeting.
Sunrise to-morrow morning, on the links to the east of Wolf's
Hope."
The Master of Ravenswood held the paper in his hand, and seemed
irresolute. At length he spoke--"Do not," he said, "urge to
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The joys of youth, that now depart,
Will come to cheer my soul again.
Though far I roam, that thought shall be
My hope, my comfort, everywhere;
While such a home remains to me,
My heart shall never know despair!
LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY.
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: before had been repaired by an unskilful hand. A chair or two and
the table, stood uncertainly upon legs. The floor had been newly
swept. Too, the blue ribbons had been restored to the curtains,
and the lambrequin, with its immense sheaves of yellow wheat
and red roses of equal size, had been returned, in a worn and sorry
state, to its position at the mantel. Maggie's jacket and hat were
gone from the nail behind the door.
Jimmie walked to the window and began to look through the
blurred glass. It occurred to him to vaguely wonder, for an
instant, if some of the women of his acquaintance had brothers.
Suddenly, however, he began to swear.
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