| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: a son of Judge McLean, of Ohio.
June 17th
On Friday evening we went to the Queen's Ball, and for the first
time saw Her Majesty dance, which she does very well, and so does
the Duchess of Sutherland, grandmother though she be.
On Monday evening we went to a concert given to the Queen by the
Duke of Wellington at Apsley House. This was an occasion not to be
forgotten, but I cannot describe it. On Tuesday I went for the
first time to hear a debate upon the Portugal interference in the
House of Lords. It brought out all the leaders, and I was so
fortunate as to hear a most powerful speech from Lord Stanley, one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: flying about her head, she had a weird brain-picture; she thought the bees
lengthened and lengthened themselves out and became human creatures and
moved round and round her. Then one came to her softly, saying, "Let me
lay my hand upon thy side where the child sleeps. If I shall touch him he
shall be as I."
She asked, "Who are you?"
And he said, "I am Health. Whom I touch will have always the red blood
dancing in his veins; he will not know weariness nor pain; life will be a
long laugh to him."
"No," said another, "let me touch; for I am Wealth. If I touch him
material care shall not feed on him. He shall live on the blood and sinews
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: pull the wool over mother's eyes, and you wind me round your
little finger. But you can't do either with Dick Gale. You're
tender-hearted; you overlook the doings of this hound, Chase.
But when Dick comes back, you just make up your mind to a little
hell in the Chase camp. Oh, he'll find it out. And I sure want to
be round when Dick hands Mr. Radford the same as he handed
Rojas!"
Belding kept a sharp lookout for young Chase, and then, a few days
later, learned that both son and father had gone off upon one of
their frequent trips to Casa Grandes, near where their mines were
situated.
Desert Gold |
