| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: and sore to the touch of the footmen's reverberations.
The meaning differentiation which the voices of the servants
insisted upon, seemed inevitably reflected in the glance
and manner of their mistresses. More than anything else,
that made him hate London, and barred the doors of his
mind to all thoughts of buying a town-house.
His newly-made wife, it is true, had not cared much
for London, either, and had agreed to his decision
against a town-house almost with animation. The occasion
of their return from the hot bustle of the metropolis to
these cool home shades--in particular the minute in which,
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: food, bright weather, and light hearts. In what we meditate of
evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavours.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
For his sake, in whose words we now conclude.
IN TIME OF RAIN
WE thank Thee, Lord, for the glory of the late days and the
excellent face of thy sun. We thank Thee for good news received.
We thank Thee for the pleasures we have enjoyed and for those we
have been able to confer. And now, when the clouds gather and the
rain impends over the forest and our house, permit us not to be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: society, after having been harmoniously lodged for years
together in one large "guildhall or barrack," was rather
painful.
[Friday, 6th July]
While the writer was at Edinburgh he was fortunate enough
to meet with Mrs. Dickson, only daughter of the late
celebrated Mr. Smeaton, whose works at the Eddystone
Lighthouse had been of such essential consequence to the
operations at the Bell Rock. Even her own elegant
accomplishments are identified with her father's work, she
having herself made the drawing of the vignette on the title-
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