| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: notice a peculiarity. All the feminine saints had one type of
feature. There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their
drooping heads, but the face was always the same. That profile--
how well Knight knew that profile!
Had there been but one specimen of the familiar countenance, he
might have passed over the resemblance as accidental; but a
repetition meant more. Knight thought anew of Smith's hasty words
earlier in the day, and looked at the sketches again and again.
On the young man's entry, Knight said with palpable agitation--
'Stephen, who are those intended for?'
Stephen looked over the book with utter unconcern, 'Saints and
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: sorrowful personality, accentuating the gloom, as a blossom may
grow upon a bleak rock. As Elmer carefully dropped ice, piece by
piece, into the oblong box, progressing slowly from hole to hole,
Cleggett thought he had never seen a more depressed young man.
Captain Abernethy approached Cleggett. There was hesitation in
the brown old man's feet, there was doubt upon his wrinkled brow,
but there was the consciousness of duty in the poise of his
shoulders, there was determination in his eyes.
The blonde lady laughed softly as the sailing-master of the
Jasper B. saluted the owner of the vessel.
"He is going to tell you," she said to Cleggett, including the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the constant wickedness of Tamasese and Brandeis. We were tired
out and could stand no longer the acts of these two men."
So through an ill-timed skirmish, two severed heads, and a dead
body, the rule of Brandeis came to a sudden end. We shall see him
a while longer fighting for existence in a losing battle; but his
government - take it for all in all, the most promising that has
ever been in these unlucky islands - was from that hour a piece of
history.
CHAPTER V - THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU
SEPTEMBER 1888
THE revolution had all the character of a popular movement. Many
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