| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: objectionable persons, and leave him to pursue his ways without
reproach. By mutual consent, his majesty and the countess
selected the Chevalier de Grammont to conduct this delicate
business; he being one in whose tact and judgment they had
implicit confidence. After various consultations and due
consideration, it was agreed the countess should abandon her
amours with Henry Jermyn and Jacob Hall, rail no more against
Moll Davis or Nell Gwynn, or any other of his majesty's
favourites, in consideration for which Charles would create her a
duchess, and give her an additional pension in order to support
her fresh honours with becoming dignity.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: and turned the snake over with his boot.
`Where did you run onto that beauty, Jim?'
`Up at the dog-town,' I answered laconically.
`Kill him yourself? How come you to have a weepon?'
`We'd been up to Russian Peter's, to borrow a spade for Ambrosch.'
Otto shook the ashes out of his pipe and squatted down
to count the rattles. `It was just luck you had a tool,'
he said cautiously. `Gosh! I wouldn't want to do any business
with that fellow myself, unless I had a fence-post along.
Your grandmother's snake-cane wouldn't more than tickle him.
He could stand right up and talk to you, he could.
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: the captain of one of them was paying the Boston skipper a visit
when Blackbeard came aboard. The two captains had been talking
together. They instantly ceased when the pirate came down into
the cabin, but he had heard enough of their conversation to catch
its drift. "Why d'ye stop?" he said. "I heard what you said.
Well, what then? D'ye think I mind it at all? Spottiswood is
going to send his bullies down here after me. That's what you
were saying. Well, what then? You don't think I'm afraid of his
bullies, do you?"
"Why, no, Captain, I didn't say you was afraid," said the
visiting captain.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
