| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: become one."
"Then she has not been baptised?" returned Luscinda.
"There has been no opportunity for that," replied the captive,
"since she left Algiers, her native country and home; and up to the
present she has not found herself in any such imminent danger of death
as to make it necessary to baptise her before she has been
instructed in all the ceremonies our holy mother Church ordains;
but, please God, ere long she shall be baptised with the solemnity
befitting her which is higher than her dress or mine indicates."
By these words he excited a desire in all who heard him, to know who
the Moorish lady and the captive were, but no one liked to ask just
Don Quixote |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: habit its muscular powers. His face, sharp-featured, sun-burnt,
and freckled, had a sinister expression of violence, impudence,
and cunning, each of which seemed alternately to predominate over
the others. Sandy-coloured hair, and reddish eyebrows, from
under which looked forth his sharp grey eyes, completed the
inauspicious outline of the horseman's physiognomy. He had
pistols in his holsters, and another pair peeped from his belt,
though he had taken some pains to conceal them by buttoning his
doublet. He wore a rusted steel head piece; a buff jacket of
rather an antique cast; gloves, of which that for the right hand
was covered with small scales of iron, like an ancient gauntlet;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: to me.
'Devils,' he said, 'devils set on their work by the chief of all
devils that live upon the earth and shall reign in hell. Hark you,
my son Thomas, there is a country called Spain where your mother
was born, and there these devils abide who torture men and women,
aye, and burn them living in the name of Christ. I was betrayed
into their hands by him whom I name the chief of the devils, though
he is younger than I am by three years, and their pincers and hot
irons left these marks upon me. Aye, and they would have burnt me
alive also, only I escaped, thanks to your mother--but such tales
are not for a little lad's hearing; and see you never speak of
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