| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: longer be favours, but only matters of duty and mat-
ters of course.
JENNY
Marry you! you audacious monster! get out of my
sight, or, rather, let me fly from you.
[Exit hastily.]
JONATHAN
Gor! she's gone off in a swinging passion, before I
had time to think of consequences. If this is the way
with your city ladies, give me the twenty acres of rock,
the Bible, the cow, and Tabitha, and a little peaceable
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: I must stop to send a wire."
Alexander went up to the telegraph-desk and
penciled the following message to his wife:--
I may have to be here for some time.
Can you come up at once? Urgent.
BARTLEY.
The Moorlock Bridge lay three miles
above the town. When they were seated in
the carriage, Alexander began to question his
assistant further. If it were true that the
compression members showed strain, with the
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: when others wilted and shriveled. The spring catalogue was
to be made up in October, as always, six months in advance.
The first week in August Fanny asked for an interview with
Fenger. Slosson was to be there. At ten o'clock she
entered Fenger's inner office. He was telephoning--
something about dinner at the Union League Club. His voice
was suave, his tone well modulated, his accent correct, his
English faultless. And yet Fanny Brandeis, studying the
etchings on his wall, her back turned to him, smiled to
herself. The voice, the tone, the accent, the English, did
not ring true They were acquired graces, exquisite
Fanny Herself |
