| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: "Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
deserve."
"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there
was no offence. The letter," he added, in a low voice, "which you
received, and which you must have thought extremely unbecoming, was
not intended for you."
The marquise could not help smiling, though she wished to seem
offended.
"Why deceive?" she said, with a disdainful air, although the tones of
her voice were gentle. "Now that I have duly scolded you, I am willing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: looking on the ground, but Adam saw her face, saw the tears, and
before he had finished saying, "Hetty, dear Hetty, what are you
crying for?" his eager rapid thought had flown through all the
causes conceivable to him, and had at last alighted on half the
true one. Hetty thought he was going to marry Mary Burge--she
didn't like him to marry--perhaps she didn't like him to marry any
one but herself? All caution was swept away--all reason for it
was gone, and Adam could feel nothing but trembling joy. He
leaned towards her and took her hand, as he said:
"I could afford to be married now, Hetty--I could make a wife
comfortable; but I shall never want to be married if you won't
Adam Bede |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: mustn't dance with me but once or twice. You
must dance with all the French girls. It hurts
their feelings if you don't. They think you're
proud because you've been away to school or
something."
Emil sniffed. "How do you know they think
that?"
"Well, you didn't dance with them much at
Raoul Marcel's party, and I could tell how they
O Pioneers! |
