| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: scene before her. He had pushed the narrow trap-door in the ceiling
upward, and had thrust candle and head through the opening, and the
faint yellow light, seeping back and downward in flickering,
uncertain rays, suggested the impression of a gruesome, headless
figure standing there hazily outlined in the surrounding murk. It
chilled her; she clutched at her shawl, drew it more closely about
her, and edged still nearer to the wall.
And then Danglar closed the trap-door again, and came back with the
candle in one hand, and one of the bulky packages of banknotes from
the hiding place in the other. He set the candle down on the
washstand, and began to distribute the money through his various
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: (2) "NOTE BY MR. MACKELLAR. Should not this be Alan BRECK Stewart,
afterwards notorious as the Appin murderer? The Chevalier is
sometimes very weak on names.
(3) NOTE BY MR. MACKELLAR. This Teach of the SARAH must not be
confused with the celebrated Blackbeard. The dates and facts by no
means tally. It is possible the second Teach may have at once
borrowed the name and imitated the more excessive part of his
manners from the first. Even the Master of Ballantrae could make
admirers.
(4) NOTE BY MR. MACKELLAR. And is not this the whole explanation?
since this Dutton, exactly like the officers, enjoyed the stimulus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: "I have no questions to ask him," Potter's lawyer
replied.
A third witness swore he had often seen the knife in
Potter's possession.
"Take the witness."
Counsel for Potter declined to question him. The
faces of the audience began to betray annoyance.
Did this attorney mean to throw away his client's life
without an effort?
Several witnesses deposed concerning Potter's guilty
behavior when brought to the scene of the murder.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
