| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: heard the like."
"It's worse than that, you see," said Case. "You ain't tabooed - I
told you that couldn't be. The people won't go near you,
Wiltshire, and there's where it is."
"They won't go near me? What do you mean by that? Why won't they
go near me?" I cried.
Case hesitated. "Seems they're frightened," says he, in a low,
voice.
I stopped dead short. "Frightened?" I repeated. "Are you gone
crazy, Case? What are they frightened of?"
"I wish I could make out," Case answered, shaking his head.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: on the desk. "I take it this check is your work, Sylvester," he
said. "You reaped the benefit by having the money paid to your
sister. Did you also have the fake telegram delivered to me stating
Mr. Rochester was in Cleveland?"
"I faked that," broke in Rochester, before the clerk could make a
disclaimer. "I thought it best to disappear for a few days down in
Virginia, where I could think things over in peace."
"So it was you, Sylvester, and not Mr. Rochester whom I encountered
in his apartment," exclaimed Kent. "How did you get in the
apartment?"
"From the fire-escape and along the window ledge to the bathroom
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: look came into her dark eyes, as she nodded her head and murmured in a
voice so low that I think I alone caught her words:
"Yes, yes, have no fear."
Pereira was speaking again (he had turned aside to strike the steel of
his tinder-box, and was now blowing the spark to a glow before lighting
his big pipe).
"By the way, Heer Allan," he said, "that is a very good mare of yours.
She seems to have done the distance between the Mission Station and
Maraisfontein in wonderful time, as, for the matter of that, the roan
did too. I have taken a fancy to her, after a gallop on her back
yesterday just to give her some exercise, and although I don't know that
Marie |
