| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: and said in her ear, "I can swim, say nothing about it! I will hold
you by your fair hair and bring you safely to the shore; but I can
only save you."
The girl looked at her aged mother. The lady was on her knees
entreating absolution of the Bishop, who did not heed her. In the
beautiful eyes the knight read a vague feeling of filial piety, and
spoke in a smothered voice.
"Submit yourself to the will of God. If it is His pleasure to take
your mother to Himself, it will doubtless be for her happiness--in
another world," he added, and his voice dropped still lower. "And for
ours in this," he thought within himself.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: Swift as lightning Gale whirled.
"Laddy! I thought you were done for," cried Gale, with a break in
his voice.
"I ain't a-mindin' the bullet much. But that choya joint took my
nerve, an' you can gamble on it. Dick, this hole's pretty high up,
ain't it?"
The ranger's blouse was open at the neck, and on his right shoulder
under the collar bone was a small hole just beginning to bleed.
"Sure it's high, Laddy," replied Gale, gladly. "Went clear through,
clean as a whistle!"
He tore a handkerchief into two parts, made wads, and pressing them
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: But the lady would not let Bessie Bell get far from her, and Bessie
did not care to go far from her. She stood with her little pink
hands folded, and looked up at the lady who held to her so closely.
Sister Helen Vincula said: ``It was Sister Theckla who spent that
summer with the sick, and it was Sister Theckla who brought the
child to us. Can you not go home with us? Or I could write to you
at once--''
``No,'' said the lady. ``I will go. The child shall not leave me--'
``And we will talk to Sister Theckla, and she will tell us all that
she knows, and then--God willing--we shall know all.''
The lady said: ``Yes, we will all go together. We will go at once.''
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