| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: her!
I was unable to speak. Twice I opened my mouth: then I turned
Halsey around and pointed. They were quite unconscious of us;
her head was on his shoulder, his face against her hair. As it
happened, it was Mr. Jamieson who broke up the tableau.
He stepped over to Alex and touched him on the arm.
"And now," he said quietly, "how long are you and I to play
OUR little comedy, Mr. Bailey?"
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE ODDS AND ENDS
Of Doctor Walker's sensational escape that night to South
The Circular Staircase |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: by sympathy, her lips, were full of all that he had been telling her.
"This is the Prince," she said, "the Prince of Silberstadt-Schreckenstein!"
Felix burst out laughing, and Mr. Brand stood staring, while the others,
who had passed into the house, appeared behind him in the open door-way.
CHAPTER III
That evening at dinner Felix Young gave his sister,
the Baroness Munster, an account of his impressions.
She saw that he had come back in the highest possible spirits;
but this fact, to her own mind, was not a reason for rejoicing.
She had but a limited confidence in her brother's judgment;
his capacity for taking rose-colored views was such as to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: knighthood by a grand feast given in honor of the newly-created
knight. But in Myles's instance the feast was dispensed with. The
Earl of Mackworth had planned that Myles might be created a
Knight of the Bath with all possible pomp and ceremony; that his
personality might be most favorably impressed upon the King; that
he might be so honorably knighted as to make him the peer of any
who wore spurs in all England; and, finally, that he might
celebrate his new honors by jousting with some knight of high
fame and approved valor. All these desiderata chance had
fulfilled in the visit of the King to Devlen.
As the Earl had said to Myles, he would rather have waited a
Men of Iron |
