| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: useful and honoured."
"I bear witness, my friend, but will reserve my listening,"
answered Tressilian, "for a safer time; unless, indeed, you deem
it essential to your reputation to be translated, like your late
dwelling, by the assistance of a flash of fire. For you see your
best friends reckon you no better than a mere sorcerer."
"Now, Heaven forgive them," said the artist, "who confounded
learned skill with unlawful magic! I trust a man may be as
skilful, or more so, than the best chirurgeon ever meddled with
horse-flesh, and yet may be upon the matter little more than
other ordinary men, or at the worst no conjurer."
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: expanded, and she took three or four light steps forward.
'Oh, you dear thing!' she exclaimed. 'I thought you were in Simla!
Imagine you being here! Do you know you have SAVED me!'
Madeline regarded her in silence, while a pallor spread over her
face and lips, and her features grew sharp with a presage of pain.
'Have I?' she stammered. She could not think.
'Indeed you have. I don't know how to be grateful enough to you.
Your telegram of yesterday reached me at Solon. We had just sat
down to tiffin. Nothing will ever shake my faith in providence
again! My dear, THINK of it--after all I've been through, my
darling Val--and one hundred thousand pounds!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Presently the wolves flocked around him, and leaped upon him in joy,
glaring with fierce eyes at her who sat upon his shoulders. Nada saw
them, and almost fell from her seat, fainting with fear, for they were
many and dreadful, and when they howled her blood turned to ice.
But Umslopogaas cheered her, telling her that these were his dogs with
whom he went out hunting, and with whom he should hunt presently. At
length they came to the knees of the Old Witch and the entrance to the
cave. It was empty except for a wolf or two, for Galazi abode here
seldom now; but when he was on the mountain would sleep in the forest,
which was nearer the kraal of his brother the Slaughterer.
"Here you must stay, sweet," said Umslopogaas when he had driven out
Nada the Lily |
