| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: information which had arrived that day. A friendly Indian runner had brought
news to Short Creek, a settlement on the river between Fort Henry and Fort
Pitt of an intended raid by the Indians all along the Ohio valley. Major
McColloch, who had been warned by Wetzel of the fever of unrest among the
Indians--a fever which broke out every spring--had gone to Fort Pitt with the
hope of bringing back reinforcements, but, excepting the young soldier, who
had volunteered to return with him, no help could he enlist, so he journeyed
back post-haste to Fort Henry.
The information he brought disturbed Captain Boggs, who commanded the
garrison, as a number of men were away on a logging expedition up the river,
and were not expected to raft down to the Fort for two weeks.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "No," I said. "Not tired. But I'll tell you,
Captain Giles, how I feel. I feel old. And I must
be. All of you on shore look to me just a lot of
skittish youngsters that have never known a care
in the world."
He didn't smile. He looked insufferably ex-
emplary. He declared:
"That will pass. But you do look older--it's a
fact."
"Aha!" I said.
"No! No! The truth is that one must not make
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: commercial party, surprised, were equally silent, trying to discover
the subject of this earnest conference. The secret of the young ULTRAS
was soon revealed.
Amelie rose, took an easel which stood near hers, carried it to a
distance from the noble group, and placed it close to a board
partition which separated the studio from the extreme end of the
attic, where all broken casts, defaced canvases and the winter supply
of wood were kept. Amelie's action caused a murmur of surprise, which
did not prevent her from accomplishing the change by rolling hastily
to the side of the easel the stool, the box of colors, and even the
picture by Prudhon, which the absent pupil was copying. After this
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