| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: articles of pewter and earthenware. He exalted his voice amid
the clatter, shouting and roaring in a manner which changed
Mysie's hysterical terrors of the thunder into fears that her old
fellow-servant was gone distracted. "He has dung down a' the
bits o' pigs, too--the only thing we had left to haud a soup
milk--and he has spilt the hatted hit that was for the Master's
dinner. Mercy save us, the auld man's gaen clean and clear wud
wi' the thunner!"
"Haud your tongue, ye b----!" said Caleb, in the impetuous and
overbearing triumph of successful invention, "a's provided now--
dinner and a'thing; the thunner's done a' in a clap of a hand!"
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: every other inhabitant of the Cite Bourdin, lived in it for the sake
of comparatively low rent, the cause of its existence and prosperity.
His sixth floor lodging, in the second house to the left, looked out
upon the belt of green garden, still in existence, at the back of
three or four large mansions in the Rue de Bondy.
Topinard's apartment consisted of a kitchen and two bedrooms. The
first was a nursery with two little deal bedsteads and a cradle in it,
the second was the bedroom, and the kitchen did duty as a dining-room.
Above, reached by a short ladder, known among builders as a "trap-
ladder," there was a kind of garret, six feet high, with a sash-window
let into the roof. This room, given as a servants' bedroom, raised the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "Ah. The yacht," said Lingard, musingly, keeping his eyes on the
break in the coast. "The yacht--" He stamped his foot suddenly.
"I would give all I am worth and throw in a few days of life into
the bargain if I could get her off and away before to-night."
He calmed down, and again stood gazing at the land. A little
within the entrance from behind the wall of forests an invisible
fire belched out steadily the black and heavy convolutions of
thick smoke, which stood out high, like a twisted and shivering
pillar against the clear blue of the sky.
"We must stop that game, Mr. Shaw," said Lingard, abruptly.
"Yes, sir. What game?" asked Shaw, looking round in wonder.
The Rescue |
