| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: never comes to pass, Mr. Bannister. The road to the nether
regions is paved with good intentions, we are given to
understand. Not that yours can by any stretch of imagination be
called 'good intentions.'"
"Contrariwise, then, perhaps the road to heaven may be paved with
evil intentions. Since y'u travel the road with me, wherever it
may lead, it were but gallant to hope so."
He took three sharp steps toward her and stood looking down in
her face, her sweet slenderness so close to him that the perfume
mounted to his brain. Surely no maiden had ever been more
desirable than this one, who held him in such contemptuous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: any time--see reason--alter your opinion. Always at your service.
No offence, I hope. All right! I'm off. Due to play hockey.
Jackson's. Horrid snorters! So long, Vee! Just suggested it.
See? Nothing really. Passing thought."
"Teddy," said Ann Veronica, "you're a dear!"
"Oh, quite!" said Teddy, convulsively, and lifted an imaginary
hat and left her.
Part 3
The call Ann Veronica paid with her aunt that afternoon had at
first much the same relation to the Widgett conversation that a
plaster statue of Mr. Gladstone would have to a carelessly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: but because I cannot speak of fallen women as unconcernedly as of
these chairs, I am being examined by a doctor, I am called mad,
I am pitied!"
Vassilyev for some reason felt all at once unutterably sorry for
himself, and his companions, and all the people he had seen two
days before, and for the doctor; he burst into tears and sank
into a chair.
His friends looked inquiringly at the doctor. The latter, with
the air of completely comprehending the tears and the despair, of
feeling himself a specialist in that line, went up to Vassilyev
and, without a word, gave him some medicine to drink; and then,
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
