| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: by such a vessel (for I remembered all the particulars to a title),
so many pieces of huckaback linen, so many ells of Dutch
holland and the like, in a box, and a hamper of flint glasses
from Mr. Henzill's glasshouse; and that the box was marked
I. C. No. 1, and the hamper was directed by a label on the
cording.
About an hour after, I came to the warehouse, found the
warehouse-keeper, and had the goods delivered me without
any scruple; the value of the linen being about #22.
I could fill up this whole discourse with the variety of such
adventures, which daily invention directed to, and which I
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: rambling about all night!' I wanted to discover where he had been,
but I did not like to ask directly.
'No, I'm not hungry,' he answered, averting his head, and speaking
rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the
occasion of his good humour.
I felt perplexed: I didn't know whether it were not a proper
opportunity to offer a bit of admonition.
'I don't think it right to wander out of doors,' I observed,
'instead of being in bed: it is not wise, at any rate this moist
season. I daresay you'll catch a bad cold or a fever: you have
something the matter with you now!'
Wuthering Heights |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: and studded full of broad-headed nails. Besides all these
defences, they were by no means confident in the truth of the old
dame's assertion, that she alone composed the garrison. The more
knowing of the party had observed hoof-marks in the track by
which they approached the tower, which seemed to indicate that
several persons had very lately passed in that direction.
To all these difficulties was added their want of means for
attacking the place. There was no hope of procuring ladders long
enough to reach the battlements, and the windows, besides being
very narrow, were secured with iron bars. Scaling was therefore
out of the question; mining was still more so, for want of tools
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