| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: work!--'
The old man was really moved.
Next day Connie was arranging tall yellow tulips in a glass vase.
'Connie,' said Clifford, 'did you know there was a rumour that you are
going to supply Wragby with a son and heir?'
Connie felt dim with terror, yet she stood quite still, touching the
flowers.
'No!' she said. 'Is it a joke? Or malice?'
He paused before he answered:
'Neither, I hope. I hope it may be a prophecy.'
Connie went on with her flowers.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: in the darkness.
Gertrude put her arm round her. "I wish he would marry you!"
she went on.
Charlotte shook herself free. "You must not say such things!"
she exclaimed, beneath her breath.
"You like him more than you say, and he likes you more than he knows."
"This is very cruel of you!" Charlotte Wentworth murmured.
But if it was cruel Gertrude continued pitiless. "Not if it 's true,"
she answered. "I wish he would marry you."
"Please don't say that."
"I mean to tell him so!" said Gertrude.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: "Yes, sir! I am awake."
"Well, then, be good enough to hold yourself as if you were.
And keep a lookout. If there's any current we'll be closing
with some islands before daylight."
The east side of the gulf is fringed with islands, some solitary,
others in groups. One the blue background of the high coast they
seem to float on silvery patches of calm water, arid and gray,
or dark green and rounded like clumps of evergreen bushes,
with the larger ones, a mile or two long, showing the outlines
of ridges, ribs of gray rock under the dark mantle of matted leafage.
Unknown to trade, to travel, almost to geography, the manner
The Secret Sharer |
