Black brush-script lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway on off-white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.

Brush lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway

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The image shows the phrase Feel the fear and do it anyway written across three lines in bold, slanted black brush lettering on plain off-white paper. The strokes vary in thickness, with tapering entry and exit marks and dry-brush edges. The composition is simple and centred, with no other objects or colour.

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Dear Hettie, the snow has shut the road over Gullet Brow since Tuesday, so you will have to make do with my handwriting until the plough gets through. Mr Oakes has been in the back room since Wednesday with a fever he will not admit to, the Pickering girl has gone home to her mother's, and that leaves me, the kitchen boy and a lurcher called Biscuit to keep the place standing.

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Mother's sign is still nailed above the hearth, the one she painted the spring before she died, its black letters gone grey with woodsmoke: Feel the fear and do it anyway. When we were small I thought it was the sort of thing grown women said to frighten children into bravery. Last night I stood under it with the lamp in one hand and the cellar key in the other, and I could not for the life of me remember what I had been frightened of.

So I wrapped Mr Oakes in every blanket we own and went down the lane with the lantern. The drifts came up to my waist at the stile. I went over it the way you go into cold water, all at once, and I did not stop to make a list of reasons. Dr Sowerby came back up the hill with me on the sledge, swearing gently at the horse the whole way.

I came in at first light. The fire had gone to ash, the boy was asleep on the settle, and frost had crept along the edges of Mother's letters, so every word stood out a little sharper than I had ever seen it. Your loving sister, Nan.