| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: a king!"
He thought the woman mad, tried to check her, but she went on,
fierce in her eager haste.
"If I were t' witch dwarf, if I had t' money, wud hur thank me?
Wud hur take me out o' this place wid hur and Janey? I wud not
come into the gran' house hur wud build, to vex hur wid t'
hunch,--only at night, when t' shadows were dark, stand far off
to see hur."
Mad? Yes! Are many of us mad in this way?
"Poor Deb! poor Deb!" he said, soothingly.
"It is here," she said, suddenly, jerking into his hand a small
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: knows that. Oscar and me have always been
easy-going and we've never made any fuss.
We were willing you should hold the land and
have the good of it, but you got no right to
part with any of it. We worked in the fields
to pay for the first land you bought, and what-
ever's come out of it has got to be kept in the
family."
Oscar reinforced his brother, his mind fixed
on the one point he could see. "The property
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the case."
"Count Ivan Michaelovitch was also going to speak about it."
Nekhludoff had hardly got these words out when the Baron's face
changed.
"You had better hand in the petition into the office, after all,
and I shall do what I can," he said.
At this moment the young official again entered the room,
evidently showing off his elegant manner of walking.
"That lady is asking if she may say a few words more."
"Well, ask her in. Ah, mon cher, how many tears we have to see
shed! If only we could dry them all. One does all that lies
Resurrection |
