| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: you, or she don't come into MY doors. But first of all you must
make your journey!"
"My journey!" repeated Jacob.
"Weren't you thinking of it this night, before you took your seat
on that stump? A little more, and you'd have gone clean off, I
reckon."
Jacob was silent, and hung his head.
"Never mind! I've no right to think hard of it. In a week we'll
have finished our haying, and then it's a fortnight to wheat; but,
for that matter, Harry and I can manage the wheat by ourselves.
You may take a month, two months, if any thing comes of it. Under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: photographs in my pocket with the map-plates.
"Even if the star-maps are correct, still it proves nothing,"
said Bickley, "since possibly Oro's astronomical skill might have
enabled him to draw that of the sky at any period, though I allow
this is impossible."
"I doubt his taking so much trouble merely to deceive three
wanderers who lacked the knowledge even to check them," I said.
"But all this misses the point, Bickley. However long they had
slept, that man and woman did arise from seeming death. They did
dwell in those marvelous caves with their evidences of departed
civilisations, and they did show us that fearful, world-wandering
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: Heathercat be dimmed. But the scene between Curate Haddo and
Janet M'Clour had also given him much to think of: and he was
still puzzling over the case of the curate, and why such ill
words were said of him, and why, if he were so merry-
spirited, he should yet preach so dry, when coming over a
knowe, whom should he see but Janet, sitting with her back to
him, minding her cattle! He was always a great child for
secret, stealthy ways, having been employed by his mother on
errands when the same was necessary; and he came behind the
lass without her hearing.
'Jennet,' says he.
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