| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: human being whom she loved, to gain one look of real heart-
kindness from him? If anything like this were hidden beneath
the pale, bleared eyes, and dull, washed-out-looking face, no
one had ever taken the trouble to read its faint signs: not the
half-clothed furnace-tender, Wolfe, certainly. Yet he was kind
to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very rats
that swarmed in the cellar: kind to her in just the same way.
She knew that. And it might be that very knowledge had given to
her face its apathy and vacancy more than her low, torpid life.
One sees that dead, vacant look steal sometimes over the rarest,
finest of women's faces,--in the very midst, it may be, of their
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: by your visa, that I came by Suez."
"Very well, sir."
The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport, after which
he added his official seal. Mr. Fogg paid the customary fee,
coldly bowed, and went out, followed by his servant.
"Well?" queried the detective.
"Well, he looks and acts like a perfectly honest man," replied the consul.
"Possibly; but that is not the question. Do you think, consul,
that this phelgmatic gentleman resembles, feature by feature,
the robber whose description I have received?"
"I concede that; but then, you know, all descriptions--"
Around the World in 80 Days |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: unwritten. He's a devil and he has no fear. Didn't he kidnap her
before?"
"He surely would never dare touch those young ladies. But--I
don't know. Bann, I guess we better roll along toward the Lazy D
country, after all."
"I think so." Ned looked at his friend with smiling drollery. "I
thought y'u smoked your troubles away, Jim. This one seems to
worry y'u."
McWilliams grinned sheepishly. "There's one trouble won't be
smoked away. It kinder dwells. "Then, apparently apropos of
nothing, he added, irrelevantly: "Wonder what Denver's doing
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