| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: breaks. You could go in the sled, of course, but if you care anything for my
advice you will stay home. This weather will hold on for some time. Let Lord
Dunmore wait."
"I guess we are in for some stiff weather."
"Haven't a doubt of it. I told Bessie last fall we might expect a hard winter.
Everything indicated it. Look at the thick corn-husks. The hulls of the nuts
from the shells bark here in the yard were larger and tougher than I ever saw
them. Last October Tige killed a raccoon that had the wooliest kind of a fur.
I could have given you a dozen signs of a hard winter. We shall still have a
month or six weeks of it. In a week will be ground-hog day and you had better
wait and decide after that."
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: promised to bring the poor girl to her instantly. His words so
terrified the grandmother that she could not control her impatience
and followed him to the square. When Pierrette screamed, the horror of
that cry went to her heart as sharply as it did to Brigaut's. Together
they would have roused the neighborhood if Rogron, in his terror, had
not opened the door. The scream of the young girl at bay gave her
grandmother the sudden strength of anger with which she carried her
dear Pierrette in her arms to Frappier's house, where Madame Frappier
hastily arranged Brigaut's own room for the old woman and her
treasure. In that poor room, on a bed half-made, the sufferer was
deposited; and there she fainted away, holding her hand still
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and the ancient harquebus -- mute testimonials to the mighty
physique and the warlike spirit of him who had somehow
won, thus illy caparisoned and pitifully armed, to the center
of savage, ancient Africa; and he saw the slender English
youth and the slight figure of the girl cast into the same fate-
ful trap from which this giant of old had been unable to escape
-- cast there wounded and broken perhaps, if not killed.
His judgment told him that the latter possibility was prob-
ably the fact, and yet there was a chance that they might
have landed without fatal injuries, and so upon this slim
chance he started out upon what he knew would be an ardu-
Tarzan the Untamed |
