| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: his color bad, and she knew that he was drinking in order to get
to sleep.
On the third day after Dick's departure for the West she got up
when she heard him coming in, and putting on her dressing gown and
slippers, knocked at his door.
"Come in," he called ungraciously.
She found him with his coat off, standing half defiantly with a
glass of whisky and soda in his hand. She went up to him and
took it from him.
"We've had enough of that in the family, Wallie," she said. "And
it's a pretty poor resource in time of trouble."
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: That must depart along the way?
INDEX
Answering Him....................... 126
Apple Tree, The..................... 68
As Fall the Leaves.................. 188
At the Door......................... 132
Autumn at the Orchard............... 136
Be a Friend......................... 97
Bear Story, A....................... 134
Boy That Was, The................... 186
Breakfast Time, At.................. 50
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: at a farce.'
And with that Macfarlane took his departure and drove off up
the wynd in his gig to get under cover before daylight.
Fettes was thus left alone with his regrets. He saw the
miserable peril in which he stood involved. He saw, with
inexpressible dismay, that there was no limit to his
weakness, and that, from concession to concession, he had
fallen from the arbiter of Macfarlane's destiny to his paid
and helpless accomplice. He would have given the world to
have been a little braver at the time, but it did not occur
to him that he might still be brave. The secret of Jane
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