| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: his soul was utterly desolate till she was sent to him.
"At first, I'd a sort o' feeling come across me now and then," he
was saying in a subdued tone, "as if you might be changed into the
gold again; for sometimes, turn my head which way I would, I seemed
to see the gold; and I thought I should be glad if I could feel it,
and find it was come back. But that didn't last long. After a bit,
I should have thought it was a curse come again, if it had drove you
from me, for I'd got to feel the need o' your looks and your voice
and the touch o' your little fingers. You didn't know then, Eppie,
when you were such a little un--you didn't know what your old
father Silas felt for you."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: indeed undone.
"You think of Richard," she exclaimed, "and you know that Richard is to
have no active part in the affair - that he will run no risk. They have
assigned him but a sentry duty that he may warn Blake and his followers
if any danger threatens them."
"It is not of Richard's life I am thinking, but of his honour, of his
trust in me. To warn Mr. Wilding were... to commit an act of betrayal."
"And is Mr. Wilding to be slaughtered with his friends?" Diana asked her.
"Resolve me that. Time presses. In half an hour it will be too late."
That allusion to the shortness of the time brought Ruth an inspiration.
Suddenly she saw a way. Wilding should be saved, and yet she would not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: British Columbia, and left San Francisco the same afternoon,
booked for Los Angeles.
The next day they pursued their retreat by the Southern Pacific
route, which Carthew followed on his way to England; but the
other three branched off for Mexico.
EPILOGUE:
TO WILL H. LOW.
DEAR LOW: The other day (at Manihiki of all places) I had
the pleasure to meet Dodd. We sat some two hours in the neat,
little, toy-like church, set with pews after the manner of Europe,
and inlaid with mother-of-pearl in the style (I suppose) of the
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