| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: "The young women conversed without any circumspection or modesty,
and frequently met at taverns and common eating-houses." An
additional description of the ways and manners of young maidens
under the Republic is given in a rare and curious pamphlet
entitled "A Character of England as it was lately presented in a
Letter to a Nobleman of France"; printed in the year 1659, for
Jo. Crooke, and sold at the Ship in St. Paul's Yard. Having
spoken of taverns where "fury and intemperance" reign, and where,
"that nothing may be wanting to the height of luxury and impiety,
organs have been translated out of the churches for the purpose
of chanting their dithyrambics and bestiall bacchanalias to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: motioned the girl to precede him, and thus guarded she re-
turned to her hut, the fellow squatting down just outside the
doorway, where he confined his attentions for some time to
the gourd.
Bertha Kircher sat down at the far side of the hut awaiting
she knew not what impending fate. She could not sleep so
filled was her mind with wild schemes of escape though each
new one must always be discarded as impractical. Half an
hour after the warrior had returned her to her prison he rose
and entered the hut, where he tried to engage in conversation
with her. Groping across the interior he leaned his short spear
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Galazi brushes the blood from his eyes and glares round on the dead.
"All! Slaughterer," he cries.
"All save two, my brother," comes the answer, sounding above the clash
of steel and the sound of smitten shields.
Now the Wolf would come to him, but cannot, for his life ebbs.
"Fare you well, my brother! Death is good! Thus, indeed, I would die,
for I have made me a mat of men to lie on," he cried with a great
voice.
"Fare you well! Sleep softly, Wolf!" came the answer. "All save one!"
Now Galazi fell dying on the dead, but he was not altogether gone, for
he still spoke. "All save one! Ha! ha! ill for that one then when
Nada the Lily |
