| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: was probably some social rule about such things which he
didn't understand.
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In the drawing-room of the house in Grafton Street
which he had quitted, the two ladies sat with faces
averted from each other, in constrained silence.
Edith Cressage rose at last, and took a few aimless steps,
with her hands at her hair. "Well--I'm embarked--fairly
under way!" she said, in clear-cut, almost provocative tones.
"I don't at all know what to say," her companion replied,
slowly. "I fancy that you exaggerate my disapproval.
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: was the utmost effect Dinah's preaching had wrought in them at
present. Yet no one had retired, except the children and "old
Feyther Taft," who being too deaf to catch many words, had some
time ago gone back to his inglenook. Wiry Ben was feeling very
uncomfortable, and almost wishing he had not come to hear Dinah;
he thought what she said would haunt him somehow. Yet he couldn't
help liking to look at her and listen to her, though he dreaded
every moment that she would fix her eyes on him and address him in
particular. She had already addressed Sandy Jim, who was now
holding the baby to relieve his wife, and the big soft-hearted man
had rubbed away some tears with his fist, with a confused
Adam Bede |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all covered with sheep.'
'Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed.'
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,
And all the hills echoed.
INFANT JOY
'I have no name;
I am but two days old.'
What shall I call thee?
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
