| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: from that day, too, Swaffer began to pay him reg-
ular wages.
"I can't follow step by step his development.
He cut his hair short, was seen in the village and
along the road going to and fro to his work like
any other man. Children ceased to shout after him.
He became aware of social differences, but re-
mained for a long time surprised at the bare pov-
erty of the churches among so much wealth. He
couldn't understand either why they were kept shut
up on week days. There was nothing to steal in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: the powers you have armed and sent to work on men afar. Where is your
nation's sword--you men of thought?'
"Cry to the women of England: 'You, who repose in sumptuous houses, with
children on your knees; think not it is only the rustling of the soft
draped curtains, or the whistling of the wind, you hear. Listen! May it
not be the far off cry of those your sword governs, creeping towards you
across wide oceans till it pierces even into your inmost sanctuary?
Listen!
"For the womanhood of a dominant people has not accomplished all its labour
when it has borne its children and fed them at its breast: there cries to
it also from over seas and across continents the voice of the child-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: of having truly elevating, intellectual friendships.
For it was plain enough that the men whose friendship
would be of genuine and stimulating profit to him would
not like her. Now that he thought of it, she seemed
latterly to make no friends at all.
Suddenly, as he watched in a blank sort of way Brother
Soulsby take out a penknife, and lop an offending twig
from a rose-bush against the fence, something occurred
to him. There was a curious exception to that rule
of Alice's isolation. She had made at least one friend.
Levi Gorringe seemed to like her extremely.
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
