| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: himself?"
'He must have slipped in through the washhouse door, for he
flits past me and joins 'em, cold as ice.
'"One does what one can," he says. "I sell buttons. And
you, Marquise?"
'"I?" - she waves her poor white hands all burned - "I am a
cook - a very bad one - at your service, Abbe. We were just
talking about you."
They didn't treat him like they talked of him. They backed off
and stood still.
'"I have missed something, then," he says. "But I spent this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: and dancing which came out to him suddenly through a lull in the
wind.
He turned to the right, climbed over the low wall of broken ice-
blocks that bordered the lake, and pushed up the gentle slope to the
open passageway by which the two parts of the rambling house were
joined together. Crossing the porch with the last remnant of his
strength, he lifted his hand to knock, and fell heavily against the
side door.
The noise, heard through the confusion within, awakened curiosity
and conjecture.
Just as when a letter comes to a forest cabin, it is turned over and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: Shelters. We have provided accommodation now for several thousand of
the most helplessly broken-down men in London, criminals many of them,
mendicants, tramps, those who are among the filth and offscouring of
all things; but such is the influence that is established by the
meeting and the moral ascendancy of our officers themselves, that we
have never had a fight on the premises, and very seldom do we ever hear
an oath or an obscene word. Sometimes there has been trouble outside
the Shelter, when men insisted upon coming in drunk or were otherwise
violent; but once let them come to the Shelter, and get into the swing
of the concern, and we have no trouble with them. In the morning they
get up and have their breakfast and, after a short service, go off
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
