| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: excite me too much."
"Fred?"
"My husband. He made me promise to say good-by to Jo at home."
"Jo?"
"Jo's my boy. And he's going to war. So I ran away. I had to
see him. I had to see him go."
She was dry-eyed. Her gaze was straining up the street.
"Why, sure," said Jo. "Of course you want to see him." And
then the crowd gave a great roar. There came over Jo a feeling
of weakness. He was trembling. The boys went marching by.
"There he is," Emily shrilled, above the din. "There he is!
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: to-night, but I will not depend on it. At any rate
I shall expect you to-morrow. For the present, adieu.
"M.D."
Her second note, which had been written on the morning
after the dance at the Middletons', was in these words:--
"I cannot express my disappointment in having
missed you the day before yesterday, nor my astonishment
at not having received any answer to a note which
I sent you above a week ago. I have been expecting
to hear from you, and still more to see you, every
hour of the day. Pray call again as soon as possible,
Sense and Sensibility |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: thee.' Then he bent down two young fir-trees, and bound
Sinis between them for all his struggling and his prayers;
and let them go, and ended Sinis, and went on, leaving him to
the hawks and crows.
Then he went over the hills toward Megara, keeping close
along the Saronic Sea, till he came to the cliffs of Sciron,
and the narrow path between the mountain and the sea.
And there he saw Sciron sitting by a fountain, at the edge of
the cliff. On his knees was a mighty club; and he had barred
the path with stones, so that every one must stop who came
up.
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