| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: up with a sudden geniality and rubbing his hands together.
Ann Veronica, who knew her dress became her, dropped a curtsy to
her father's regard.
Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her
mightily to think that she had ordered the promptest possible
service of the dinner. Capes stood beside Miss Stanley, who was
beaming unnaturally, and Mr. Stanley, in his effort to seem at
ease, took entire possession of the hearthrug.
"You found the flat easily?" said Capes in the pause. "The
numbers are a little difficult to see in the archway. They ought
to put a lamp."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: once a virgin and a wanton; but always--a woman.
Such was La.
She pressed her cheek close to Tarzan's shoulder.
Slowly she turned her head until her hot lips were
pressed against his flesh. She loved him and would
gladly have died for him; yet within an hour she had
been ready to plunge a knife into his heart and might
again within the coming hour.
A hapless priest seeking shelter in the jungle chanced
to show himself to enraged Tantor. The great beast
turned to one side, bore down upon the crooked, little
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: "Yes you do! But ..." He gloomily considered her thin
and fragile form a moment longer as she crouched before him
in her night-clothes. "Well, I thought it might end like this,"
he said presently. "I owe you nothing, after these signs;
but I'll take you in at your word, and forgive you."
He put his arm round her to lift her up. Sue started back.
"What's the matter?" he asked, speaking for the first time sternly.
"You shrink from me again?--just as formerly!"
"No, Richard--I I--was not thinking----"
"You wish to come in here?"
"Yes."
Jude the Obscure |
