| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: thy foul heart with his own hand if he ever suspected
thou wert guilty of speaking of such to me, his daugh-
ter." And Bertrade de Montfort swept from the great
hall, and mounted to her tower chamber in the ancient
Saxon stronghold of Colfax.
The old woman kept watch over her during the night
and until late the following afternoon, when Peter of
Colfax summoned his prisoner before him once more.
So terribly had the old hag played upon the girl's
fears that she felt fully certain that the Baron was quite
equal to his dire threat, and so she had again been
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: and that they can't remain on my estate, if you would join him in
his efforts--if you would stay yourself and go on managing the old
woods."
Arthur paused a moment and then added, pleadingly, "You know
that's a good work to do for the sake of other people, besides the
owner. And you don't know but that they may have a better owner
soon, whom you will like to work for. If I die, my cousin
Tradgett will have the estate and take my name. He is a good
fellow."
Adam could not help being moved: it was impossible for him not to
feel that this was the voice of the honest warm-hearted Arthur
Adam Bede |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: seemed to be obeying without ever letting her percieve in him the
slightest wish on his part to govern her.
When the Abbe Chapeloud died, the old maid, who desired a lodger with
quiet ways, naturally thought of the vicar. Before the canon's will
was made known she had meditated offering his rooms to the Abbe
Troubert, who was not very comfortable on the ground-floor. But when
the Abbe Birotteau, on receiving his legacy, came to settle in writing
the terms of his board she saw he was so in love with the apartment,
for which he might now admit his long cherished desires, that she
dared not propose the exchange, and accordingly sacrificed her
sentiments of friendship to the demands of self-interest. But in order
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