| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: I looked round, and beheld - Mr. Weston!
'Your dog remembers you well, Miss Grey,' said he, warmly grasping
the hand I offered him without clearly knowing what I was about.
'You rise early.'
'Not often so early as this,' I replied, with amazing composure,
considering all the circumstances of the case.
'How far do you purpose to extend your walk?'
'I was thinking of returning - it must be almost time, I think.'
He consulted his watch - a gold one now - and told me it was only
five minutes past seven.
'But, doubtless, you have had a long enough walk,' said he, turning
Agnes Grey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'I would not judge them hardly, sir,' said Otto. 'We all have our
frailties.'
'Truly, sir,' said Mr. Gottesheim, with unction. 'And by what name,
sir, am I to address my generous landlord?'
The double recollection of an English traveller, whom he had
received the week before at court, and of an old English rogue
called Transome, whom he had known in youth, came pertinently to the
Prince's help. 'Transome,' he answered, 'is my name. I am an
English traveller. It is, to-day, Tuesday. On Thursday, before
noon, the money shall be ready. Let us meet, if you please, in
Mittwalden, at the "Morning Star."'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Mataafas, were challenged by an old man with a gun, and mentioned
in answer what they were. "IFEA SIAMANI? Which is the German?"
cried the old gentleman, dancing, and with his finger on the
trigger; and the commissioners stood somewhile in a very anxious
posture, till they were released by the opportune arrival of a
chief. It was November the 27th when Leary and Moors completed
their absurd excursion; in about three weeks an event was to befall
which changed at once, and probably for ever, the relations of the
natives and the whites.
By the 28th Tamasese had collected seventeen hundred men in the
trenches before Saluafata, thinking to attack next day. But the
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