| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: and let these people go on their road."
The three Zulus began to discuss this point, withdrawing themselves a
little way so that I could not overhear them. But when the Boers
understood the offer that I had made, Marie, who until now had been
silent, grew more angry than ever I had seen her before.
"It shall not be!" she said, stamping her foot. "Father, I have been
obedient to you for long, but if you consent to this I will be obedient
no more. Allan saved my cousin Hernan's life, as he saved all our
lives. In payment for that good deed Hernan tried to murder him in the
kloof--oh! be quiet, Allan; I know all the story. Now he has betrayed
him to the Zulus, telling them that he is a terrible and dangerous man
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: from the royal herd."
"The king is good; he sees that my belt is drawn tight; he satisfies
my hunger. Will the king suffer that I go? My wife is in labour and I
would visit her."
"Nay, stay awhile; say how it is with Baleka, my sister and thine?"
"It is well."
"Did she weep when you took the babe from her?"
"Nay, she wept not. She said, 'My lord's will is my will.'"
"Good! Had she wept she had been slain also. Who was with her?"
"The Mother of the Heavens."
The brow of Chaka darkened. "Unandi, my mother, what did she there? My
Nada the Lily |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: than all other men could those two great resultants of ancient
civilisation, the material empire of the city of the seven hills,
and the intellectual sovereignty of Hellas.
Before his own day, he says, (12) the events of the world were
unconnected and separate and the histories confined to particular
countries. Now, for the first time the universal empire of the
Romans rendered a universal history possible. (13) This, then, is
the august motive of his work: to trace the gradual rise of this
Italian city from the day when the first legion crossed the narrow
strait of Messina and landed on the fertile fields of Sicily to the
time when Corinth in the East and Carthage in the West fell before
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