| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: be the wiser course. "Don't cry any more, Anne. It will be all
right."
Marilla had changed her mind about it being all right by the time
she got back from Orchard Slope. Anne was watching for her
coming and flew to the porch door to meet her.
"Oh, Marilla, I know by your face that it's been no use," she
said sorrowfully. "Mrs. Barry won't forgive me?"
"Mrs. Barry indeed!" snapped Marilla. "Of all the unreasonable
women I ever saw she's the worst. I told her it was all a
mistake and you weren't to blame, but she just simply didn't
believe me. And she rubbed it well in about my currant wine and
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: like Gnekker my achievements in science seem to be a lofty
mountain the top of which vanishes into the clouds, while at its
foot Gnekkers are running about scarcely visible to the naked
eye.
After dinner I go into my study and there smoke my pipe, the only
one in the whole day, the sole relic of my old bad habit of
smoking from morning till night. While I am smoking my wife comes
in and sits down to talk to me. Just as in the morning, I know
beforehand what our conversation is going to be about.
"I must talk to you seriously, Nikolay Stepanovitch," she begins.
"I mean about Liza. . . . Why don't you pay attention to it?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: of at the inquest."
Warner, with his mechanic's instinct, had reached for the key.
What he said was not a surprise.
"Yale lock," he said. "Probably a key to the east entry."
There was no reason why Thomas, an old and trusted servant,
should not have had a key to that particular door, although the
servants' entry was in the west wing. But I had not known of
this key, and it opened up a new field of conjecture. Just now,
however, there were many things to be attended to, and, leaving
Warner with the body, we all went back to the house. Mr.
Jamieson walked with me, while Halsey and Gertrude followed.
The Circular Staircase |
