| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: what, that she began to cry again.
So then both Sisters said again: ``Yes, you should beg pardon.''
But the little girl still cried, and said, ``But I didn't mean to
trip her.'' Then she shook her head at Bessie Bell and said--because
she just had to say it:
``I beg your pardon!
Grant me grace!
I hope the cat will scratch your face! ''
Oh! Sister Mary Felice looked at Sister Theckla, and Sister Theckla
looked at Sister Mary Felice--and they both said: ``Where did she
learn that?''
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: ing. I heard what they said, too -- every word of it.
One man said it was getting towards the long days and
the short nights now. T'other one said THIS warn't
one of the short ones, he reckoned -- and then they
laughed, and he said it over again, and they laughed
again; then they waked up another fellow and told
him, and laughed, but he didn't laugh; he ripped out
something brisk, and said let him alone. The first
fellow said he 'lowed to tell it to his old woman -- she
would think it was pretty good; but he said that
warn't nothing to some things he had said in his time.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: minister, invited me to dinner and we talked of the American form
of government. (Note the spelling of Davies. It is the Welsh
spelling. When my father signed his American naturalization
papers he made his mark, for he could not read nor write. The
official wrote in his name, spelling it Davis and so it has
remained.) "You have this advantage," said Mr. Davies. "Your
president is secure in office for four years and can put his
policies through. Our prime minister has no fixed term and may
have to step out at any minute."
"Yes," I replied jokingly, "but your prime minister this time
is a Welshman."
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