| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: answer was so little of an answer that I was considerably irritated.
"We go to bed very early--earlier than you would believe."
I was on the point of saying that this only deepened the mystery when she
gave me some relief by adding, "Before you came we were not so private.
But I never have been out at night."
"Never in these fragrant alleys, blooming here under your nose?"
"Ah," said Miss Tita, "they were never nice till now!" There was
an unmistakable reference in this and a flattering comparison,
so that it seemed to me I had gained a small advantage.
As it would help me to follow it up to establish a sort of
grievance I asked her why, since she thought my garden nice,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: George, FULLY, about all that affair. Fully!"
It became clear to me as if for the first time, that I was really
parting from my aunt Susan. I went out on to the pavement and
saw her head craned forward, her wide-open blue eyes and her
little face intent on the shop that had combined for her all the
charms of a big doll's house and a little home of her very own.
"Good-bye!" she said to it and to me. Our eyes met for a
moment--perplexed. My uncle bustled out and gave a few totally
unnecessary directions to the cabman and got in beside her. "All
right?" asked the driver. "Right," said I; and he woke up the
horse with a flick of his whip. My aunt's eyes surveyed me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and mightiest fighters," mused Carthoris. "My father's
friend and mine--would that it might have been another!"
he muttered almost savagely. What the girl thought was
hidden by the mask of her expression, which was tinged
only by a little shadow of sadness that might have been
for Carthoris, herself, or for them both.
Carthoris of Helium did not ask, though he noted it,
for his loyalty to Kulan Tith was the loyalty of the
blood of John Carter of Virginia for a friend,
greater than which could be no loyalty.
He raised a jewel-encrusted bit of the girl's magnificent
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
