| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "Nellie, the savages have driven all our Christians into the church, and shut
them up there, until Girty and his men shall give the word to complete their
fiendish design. The converts asked but one favor--an hour in which to pray.
It was granted. The savages intend to murder them all."
"Oh! Horrible! Monstrous!" cried Nell. "How can they be so inhuman?" She
lifted Benny up in her arms. "They'll never get you, my boy. We'll save
you--I'll save you!" The child moaned and clung to her neck.
"They are scouring the clearing now for Christians, and will search all the
cabins. I'm positive."
"Will they come here?" asked Nell, turning her blazing eyes on Heckewelder.
"Undoubtedly. We must try to hide Benny. Let me think; where would be a good
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: happy; but naturally evil--no. There was at bottom
a complete harmlessness at least . . .
"Is there?" Mr. Van Wyk snapped acrimoniously.
Captain Whalley laughed at the interjection, in the
good humor of large, tolerating certitude. He could
look back at half a century, he pointed out. The smoke
oozed placidly through the white hairs hiding his kindly
lips.
"At all events," he resumed after a pause, "I am
glad that they've had no time to do you much harm as
yet."
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: will meet again."
This superhuman effort parched the throat of the heroic girl. She was
silent after this, like her mother, but she had triumphed. The
criminal, furious at seeing his happiness torn from him by the law,
now quivered at the sublime Catholic truth so simply expressed by his
sister. All women, even young peasant-women like Denise, know how to
touch these delicate chords; for does not every woman seek to make
love eternal? Denise had touched two chords, each most sensitive.
Awakened pride called on the other virtues chilled by misery and
hardened by despair. Jean took his sister's hand and kissed it, and
laid it on his heart in a deeply significant manner; he applied it
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