| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: pay up his arrears this week. The Squire's short o' cash, and in no
humour to stand any nonsense; and you know what he threatened, if
ever he found you making away with his money again. So, see and get
the money, and pretty quickly, will you?"
"Oh!" said Dunsey, sneeringly, coming nearer to his brother and
looking in his face. "Suppose, now, you get the money yourself,
and save me the trouble, eh? Since you was so kind as to hand it
over to me, you'll not refuse me the kindness to pay it back for me:
it was your brotherly love made you do it, you know."
Godfrey bit his lips and clenched his fist. "Don't come near me
with that look, else I'll knock you down."
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: conduct you to Mrs Cope's without a fear of your being seduced by
her Example, or contaminated by her Follies. Come, then my
Children (added I) the Carriage is driving to the door, and I
will not a moment delay the happiness you are so impatient to
enjoy." When we arrived at Warleigh, poor Augusta could scarcely
breathe, while Margaret was all Life and Rapture. "The long-
expected Moment is now arrived (said she) and we shall soon be in
the World."--In a few Moments we were in Mrs Cope's parlour,
where with her daughter she sate ready to receive us. I observed
with delight the impression my Children made on them--. They
were indeed two sweet, elegant-looking Girls, and tho' somewhat
Love and Friendship |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: species.
He turned he papers over listlessly. There was a description and
a picture of the "Weightman Wing of the Hospital for Cripples,"
of which he was president; and an article on the new professor in
the "Weightman Chair of Political Jurisprudence" in Jackson
University,
of which he was a trustee; and an illustrated account of the
opening of
the "Weightman Grammar-School" at Dulwich-on-the-Sound, where he
had his
legal residence for purposes of taxation.
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