| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: single sigh, nor induced him to bestow one curse on our
vindictive stars--. He told Sophia that his Daughter depended on
her returning with him to Macdonald-Hall, and that as his
Cousin's freind he should be happy to see me there also. To
Macdonald-Hall, therefore we went, and were received with great
kindness by Janetta the Daughter of Macdonald, and the Mistress
of the Mansion. Janetta was then only fifteen; naturally well
disposed, endowed with a susceptible Heart, and a simpathetic
Disposition, she might, had these amiable qualities been properly
encouraged, have been an ornament to human Nature; but
unfortunately her Father possessed not a soul sufficiently
Love and Friendship |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: to greet her, and, there being no one in sight, we kissed each other
several times.
"Have done, my heart," she said, pushing me away. "I come to you from
my father, who is sick in his stomach and would see you."
"Which means that I shall have to go after your cousin alone," I replied
with indignant emphasis.
She shook her head, and led me to the little shanty in which she slept.
Here by the growing light, that entered through the doorway for it had
no window, I perceived Marais seated upon a wooden stool with his hands
pressed on his middle and groaning.
"Good morning, Allan," he said in a melancholy voice; "I am ill, very
Marie |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: I wish it to be distinctly understood that it is not I, but my
granduncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la
Legion d'Honneur, etc., who in his young days, had eaten the
Lithuanian dog.
I wish he had not. The childish horror of the deed clings
absurdly to the grizzled man. I am perfectly helpless against
it. Still, if he really had to, let us charitably remember that
he had eaten him on active service, while bearing up bravely
against the greatest military disaster of modern history, and, in
a manner, for the sake of his country. He had eaten him to
appease his hunger, no doubt, but also for the sake of an
A Personal Record |
