title: Ignite: Beat Burnout & Rekindle your Inner Fire (Ancient Strategies for 21st Century People) (Volume 1)
author:  Swati Chavda 
description: <b>Swati Chavda</b> is a former neurosurgeon who further sub-specialized in deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and psychiatric conditions. Since October 2010, she has been a full-time writer. You can follow her adventures at her blog, Questplore, where she writes about finding adventure in the midst of ordinary days, and how using that strategy can help you stay on track, no matter what your goal. Join the Questplorer Team and know when a new quest is afoot. It is the ideal place for those who enjoy erasing the boundaries of pre-drawn maps, seeking new horizons, and making room for fresh conquests. Additionally, being a proud Questplorer will enable you to have a say while deciding on future book covers and hear about Swati's next book release. To read more about Swati Chavda and become a Questplorer, visit www.swatichavda.com <b>A. David Singh</b> is a neurosurgeon and writes historical fiction and motivational stories. In his blog, you can read about the intrigues and adventures that happened in ancient worlds, and the motivational messages behind those stories. Join David's Reading Group and receive immediate access to the motivational-historical stories on his blog. In addition, David will be delighted to have you on board while launching new books, where you get to vote on book covers and help David send those books out into the world. To read more about A. David Singh and join his reading group, please visit www.adavidsingh.com
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  # Adina
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  WE had been talking of Sam Scrope round the fire——mindful, such of
  
  
  us, of the rule _de mortuis_. Our host, however, had said nothing;
  
  
  rather to my surprise, as I knew he had been particularly intimate with
  
  
  our friend. But when our group had dispersed, and I remained alone with
  
  
  him, he brightened the fire, offered me another cigar, puffed his own
  
  
  awhile with a retrospective air, and told me the following tale:
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Eighteen years ago Scrope and I were together in Rome. It was the
  
  
  beginning of my acquaintance with him, and I had grown fond of him, as
  
  
  a mild, meditative youth often does of an active, irreverent, caustic
  
  
  one. He had in those days the germs of the eccentricities,——not to
  
  
  call them by a hard name,——wh