| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: that we have suffered."
Her voice was musical and low, and there was a great deal of
calm dignity and of many sufferings nobly endured marked in the
handsome, aristocratic face, with its wealth of snowy-white hair
dressed high above the forehead, after the fashion of the times.
"I hope my friend, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, proved an entertaining
travelling companion, madame?"
"Ah, indeed, Sir Andrew was kindness itself. How could my
children and I ever show enough gratitude to you all, Messieurs?"
Her companion, a dainty, girlish figure, childlike and
pathetic in its look of fatigue and of sorrow, had said nothing as
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "Which we didn't," interrupted Nels, bluntly. "Shore you can't
make me out an ole man."
"Mebbe it wasn't so darn long. Anyhow, Nels, you recollect them
three hoss-thieves I hung all on one cottonwood-tree, an'
likewise thet boo-tiful blond gurl I rescooed from a band of
cutthroats who murdered her paw, ole Bill Warren, the
buffalo-hunter? Now, which of them two scraps was the
turriblest, in your idee?"
"Monty, my memory's shore bad," replied the unimpeachable Nels.
"Tell us about the beautiful blonde," cried at least three of the
ladies. Dorothy, who had suffered from nightmare because of a
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: men in vain?
PSA 89:48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
PSA 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou
swarest unto David in thy truth?
PSA 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear
in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
PSA 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith
they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
PSA 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
PSA 90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
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