| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "What authority have you here?" demanded Silas Zane, sternly. "What right have
you to speak?"
"None, unless it is that I love her and I will go for her," answered Alfred
desperately.
"Stand back!" cried Wetzel, placing his powerful hard on Clarke's breast and
pushing him backward. "If you love her you don't want to have her wait here
for them red devils," and he waved his hand toward the river. "If she gets
back she'll save the Fort. If she fails she'll at least escape Girty."
Betty gazed into the hunter's eyes and then into Alfred's. She understood both
men. One was sending her out to her death because he knew it would be a
thousand times more merciful than the fate which awaited her at the hands of
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: only told him to leave my horse alone, or else it would kick him.
He answered in his vulgar accent, "It wouldn't do mitch hurt if it
did;" and surveyed its legs with a smile. I was half inclined to
make it try; however, he moved off to open the door, and, as he
raised the latch, he looked up to the inscription above, and said,
with a stupid mixture of awkwardness and elation: "Miss Catherine!
I can read yon, now."
'"Wonderful," I exclaimed. "Pray let us hear you - you ARE grown
clever!"
'He spelt, and drawled over by syllables, the name - "Hareton
Earnshaw."
Wuthering Heights |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: and fine, clean balsam of sulphur for the hoast. . . "
"Sir," says I, cutting very quietly in, "there's a friend of mine gone
by the house."
"Is that e'en sae?" replies Alan, as though it were a thing of small
account. And then, "Ye were saying, mem?" says he; and the wearyful
wife went on.
Presently, however, he paid her with a half-crown piece, and she must
go forth after the change.
"Was it him with the red head?" asked Alan.
"Ye have it," said I.
"What did I tell you in the wood?" he cried. "And yet it's strange he
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