| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: that beyond doubt.
Under her amazement there was a hint of fear, and then came a flash
as of anger. Jacobus, after uttering my name fairly loud, said:
"Make yourself at home, Captain - I won't be gone long," and went
away rapidly. Before I had time to make a bow I was left alone
with the girl - who, I remembered suddenly, had not been seen by
any man or woman of that town since she had found it necessary to
put up her hair. It looked as though it had not been touched again
since that distant time of first putting up; it was a mass of
black, lustrous locks, twisted anyhow high on her head, with long,
untidy wisps hanging down on each side of the clear sallow face; a
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: the Jordan bounded the western horizon, and on the southwest Big
Tupper Lake was sleeping at the base of Mount Morris. Looking past
the peak of Stony Creek Mountain, which rose sharp and distinct in
a line with Ampersand, we could trace the path of the Raquette
River from the distant waters of Long Lake down through its far-
stretched valley, and catch here and there a silvery link of its
current.
But when we turned to the south and east, how wonderful and how
different was the view! Here was no widespread and smiling
landscape with gleams of silver scattered through it, and soft blue
haze resting upon its fading verge, but a wild land of mountains,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: the material, and attacked that which related to the first phase.
It consisted of the following papers: Three letters, in a female
hand, commencing "My dear brother," and terminating with "Thy
loving sister, Elise;" part of a diploma from a gymnasium, or high
school, certifying that [here the name was cut out] had
successfully passed his examination, and was competent to
teach,--and here again, whether by accident or design, the paper
was torn off; a note, apparently to a jeweller, ordering a certain
gold ring to be delivered to "Otto," and signed " B. V. H.;" a
receipt from the package-post for a box forwarded to Warsaw, to the
address of Count Ladislas Kasincsky; and finally a washing-list, at
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