| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: Girty had deserted from Fort Pitt. Jim Girty was not present. Upon nearing
the encampment he had taken his captive and disappeared in a ravine.
Shingiss, seldom in favor of drastic measures with prisoners, eloquently urged
initiating the brothers into the tribe. Several other chiefs were favorably
inclined, though not so positive as Shingiss. Kotoxen was for the death
penalty; the implacable Pipe for nothing less than burning at the stake. Not
one was for returning the missionary to his Christian Indians. Girty and
Elliott, though requested to speak, maintained an ominous silence.
Wingenund strode with thoughtful mien before his council. He had heard all his
wise chiefs and his fiery warriors. Supreme was his power. Freedom or death
for the captives awaited the wave of his hand. His impassive face gave not the
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: his wife, but of less willingness to please or be pleased.
He entered the room with a look of self-consequence,
slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word,
and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments,
took up a newspaper from the table, and continued to read it
as long as he staid.
Mrs. Palmer, on the contrary, who was strongly endowed
by nature with a turn for being uniformly civil and happy,
was hardly seated before her admiration of the parlour
and every thing in it burst forth.
"Well! what a delightful room this is! I never
Sense and Sensibility |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: That may compassion of their evils move?
There is:- else much more wretched were the case
Of men than beasts: But oh! the exceeding grace
Of Highest God that loves His creatures so,
And all His works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed Angels He sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe!"
SPENSER.
A mile off, and a thousand feet down.
So Tom found it; though it seemed as if he could have chucked a
pebble on to the back of the woman in the red petticoat who was
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