| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: same time I acknowledge the receipt of your high favour of the 14th
October in reply to my communication of the same date, which
contained the information of the suspension of the arrangements for
the municipal government." There the correspondence ceased. And
on the 18th January came the last step of this irritating intrigue
when Tamasese appointed a judge - and the judge proved to be
Martin.
Thus was the adventure of the Castle Municipal achieved by Sir
Becker the chivalrous. The taxes of Apia, the gaol, the police,
all passed into the hands of Tamasese-Brandeis; a German was
secured upon the bench; and the German flag might wave over her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own
people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or
Tublat, or Kala.
At first he tried to pick the little figures from the leaves,
but he soon saw that they were not real, though he knew not
what they might be, nor had he any words to describe them.
The boats, and trains, and cows and horses were quite
meaningless to him, but not quite so baffling as the odd little
figures which appeared beneath and between the colored
pictures--some strange kind of bug he thought they might be,
for many of them had legs though nowhere could he find one
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: Suddenly Betty felt that some one was watching her. She turned timidly toward
the bed and became much frightened when she encountered the intense gaze from
a pair of steel-blue eyes. She almost fell from the chair; but presently she
recollected that Alfred had been unconscious for days, and that he would not
know who was watching by his bedside.
"Mother, is that you?" asked Alfred, in a weak, low voice.
"Yes, I am here," answered Betty, remembering the old woman's words about
soothing the sufferer.
"But I thought you were ill."
"I was, but I am better now, and it is you who are ill."
"My head hurts so."
Betty Zane |
