| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: he drew back and put up his hand, shutting out the strange
scene altogether. To see nothing at all was a relief,
and under cover he closed his eyes, and bit his teeth together.
A fresh outburst of thanksgivings, spreading noisily
through the congregation, prompted him to peer through
his fingers again. Levi Gorringe was making his way
down the aisle--was at the moment quite in front.
Theron found himself watching this man with the stern
composure of a fatalist. The clamant brethren down below
were stirred to new excitement by the thought that the
sceptical lawyer, so long with them, yet not of them,
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: safety, to retreat abroad, and to remain for some time in foreign
parts. I do not ask you to accompany, or follow me; you will
attend to my interest and your own more effectually by remaining
where you are. It is unnecessary to enter into a minute detail
concerning the causes of the strange events which yesterday took
place. I think I have reason to complain of the usage I have
received from Sir Edward Mauley, who is your nearest kinsman by
the mother's side; but as he has declared you his heir, and is to
put you in immediate possession of a large part of his fortune, I
account it a full atonement. I am aware he has never forgiven
the preference which your mother gave to my addresses, instead of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: milestones.
She did not enter any house till, at the seventh or
eighth mile, she descended the steep long hill below
which lay the village or townlet of Evershead, where in
the morning she had breakfasted with such contrasting
expectations. The cottage by the church, in which she
again sat down, was almost the first at that end of the
village, and while the woman fetched her some milk from
the pantry, Tess, looking down the street, perceived
that the place seemed quite deserted.
"The people are gone to afternoon service, I suppose?"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
