| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: discomfiture. He stood by, outwardly decorous, but with little
irritating grins of amusement around his mouth, when I finally
emerged with the red tie in my hand.
"Bet the owner of those clothes didn't become them any more than
you do," he said, as he plied the ubiquitous whisk broom.
"When I get the owner of these clothes," I retorted grimly, "he
will need a shroud. Where's the conductor?"
The conductor was coming, he assured me; also that there was no bag
answering the description of mine on the car. I slammed my way to
the dressing-room, washed, choked my fifteen and a half neck into a
fifteen collar, and was back again in less than five minutes. The
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: [Picks it up and hands it to her.]
MRS. ERLYNNE. [C.] How do you do, again, Lord Windermere? How
charming your sweet wife looks! Quite a picture!
LORD WINDERMERE. [In a low voice.] It was terribly rash of you to
come!
MRS. ERLYNNE. [Smiling.] The wisest thing I ever did in my life.
And, by the way, you must pay me a good deal of attention this
evening. I am afraid of the women. You must introduce me to some
of them. The men I can always manage. How do you do, Lord
Augustus? You have quite neglected me lately. I have not seen you
since yesterday. I am afraid you're faithless. Every one told me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: enough to come and go as he chose among the people whom he
plundered.
Virginia, at that time, was the greatest and the richest of all
the American colonies, and upon the farther side of North
Carolina was the province of South Carolina, also strong and
rich. It was these two colonies that suffered the most from
Blackbeard, and it began to be that the honest men that lived in
them could endure no longer to be plundered.
The merchants and traders and others who suffered cried out
loudly for protection, so loudly that the governors of these
provinces could not help hearing them.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
