| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: sufficiently agreeable to the princess to persuade her to take him to
husband. Perhaps, being already enamoured of him, she was not difficult
to persuade. At any rate, on the morrow, without any great feasting or
fuss, except the customary dance, the umqoliso, the "Ox of the Girl,"
was slaughtered, and Saduko became the husband of a royal maiden of the
House of Senzangakona.
Certainly, as I remember reflecting, it was a remarkable rise in life
for one who, but a few months before, had been without possessions or a
home.
I may add that, after our brief talk in the King's kraal, while Panda
was dozing, I had no further words with Saduko on this matter of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: for a thousand merk he borrowed from Saunders Wyliecoat the
writer."
"Poor man!" exclaimed Mrs. Elliot, "can we no send him
something, Hobbie?"
"Ye forget, grannie, ye forget we want help oursells," said
Hobbie, somewhat peevishly.
"Troth did I, hinny," replied the good-natured lady, "just at the
instant; it's sae natural to think on ane's blude relations
before themsells;--But there's young Earnscliff."
"He has ower little o' his ain; and siccan a name to keep up, it
wad be a shame," said Hobbie, "to burden him wi' our distress.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: I think, the better. Now, at any rate, you have no time to lose,
and when I return you must immediately come to me."
All this, to Clifford's apprehension, was a great mixture--
his beginning young, Eugenia's return to Europe,
his being introduced to her charming little circle.
What was he to begin, and what was her little circle?
His ideas about her marriage had a good deal of vagueness;
but they were in so far definite as that he felt it to be a matter
not to be freely mentioned. He sat and looked all round the room;
he supposed she was alluding in some way to her marriage.
"Oh, I don't want to go to Germany," he said; it seemed to him
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