| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: shall not be much in future, I want to thank you from my heart for all
that you did to save me. Had it not been for you, oh! had it not been
for you"--and she glanced at the blood stains on the earthen floor, put
her hands before her eyes and shuddered.
"Nonsense, Marie," I answered, taking her hand feebly enough, for I was
very weak. "Anyone else would have done as much, even if they did not
love you as I do. Let us thank God that it was not in vain. But what
is all that noise? Have the Quabies come back?"
She shook her head.
"No; the Boers have come back from hunting them."
"And did they catch them and recover the cattle?"
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: and it seemed to Myles, as he stood looking after him, as though
the last thread that bound him to his old life had snapped and
broken. As he turned he saw that Gascoyne was looking at him.
"Dost feel downhearted?" said the young squire, curiously.
"Nay," said Myles, brusquely. Nevertheless his throat was tight
and dry, and the word came huskily in spite of himself.
CHAPTER 5
THE EARL of Mackworth, as was customary among the great lords in
those days, maintained a small army of knights, gentlemen,
men-at-arms, and retainers, who were expected to serve him upon
all occasions of need, and from whom were supplied his quota of
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: was already under the hypnotic spell of the baby's round,
confiding eyes, and he eventually contented himself with an
occasional reprimand to Toby, who was now sometimes late on his
cues. Polly wondered, at these times, why the old man's stories
were so suddenly cut short just as she was so "comfy" in the soft
grass at his feet. The boys who used to "look sharp" because of
their boss at loading time, now learned that they might loiter so
long as "Muvver Jim" was "hikin' it round for the kid." It was
Polly who had dubbed big Jim "Muvver," and the sobriquet had
stuck to him in spite of his six feet two, and shoulders that an
athlete might have envied. Little by little, Toby grew more
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