| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Pomfret doesn't mind, this tree is rather grubby."
I got the rug and spread it on the fallen trunk for her. She was
what the Irish are popularly believed to call 'a shlip of a
ghirl,' clad in a dark blue riding-habit that fitted her slim
figure beautifully. No hat covered her thick, blue-black hair,
which was parted in the middle and loosely knotted behind. Here
and there a wisp of it was in the act of escaping. I watched
them greedily. Merry grey eyes and the softest colouring, with a
small red mouth, ready to join the eyes in their laughter if its
owner listed. She was wearing natty little patent-leather boots,
and her hunting hat and crop lay on the log by her side. She sat
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: which so many unhappy wretches had passed, when he felt
himself impregnated, as it were, with the atmosphere of
those gloomy dungeons, moistened with tears, there could be
but little doubt he was overcome by his feelings, for his
head was bowed and his eyes became dim, as he followed
Baisemeaux without a syllable.
CHAPTER 100
The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
On the second flight of stairs, whether from fatigue or
emotion, the breathing of the visitor began to fail him, and
he leaned against the wall. "Will you begin with this one?"
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: will then begin a rivalry as to numbers, with that center of population
at the foot of it--New Orleans.
Minneapolis is situated at the falls of St. Anthony, which stretch across
the river, fifteen hundred feet, and have a fall of eighty-two feet--
a waterpower which, by art, has been made of inestimable value,
business-wise, though somewhat to the damage of the Falls as a spectacle,
or as a background against which to get your photograph taken.
Thirty flouring-mills turn out two million barrels of the very
choicest of flour every year; twenty sawmills produce two hundred
million feet of lumber annually; then there are woolen mills,
cotton mills, paper and oil mills; and sash, nail, furniture,
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