| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which I could not catch, but which caused Lorquas Ptomel to
smile; after which they paid no further attention to me.
"What is your name?" asked Lorquas Ptomel, addressing
the prisoner.
"Dejah Thoris, daughter of Mors Kajak of Helium."
"And the nature of your expedition?" he continued.
"It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my
father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air
currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied
the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.
"We were unprepared for battle," she continued, "as we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: a dinner I can read your thoughts. You still believe it's Uncle
Tim.'
'Mr Finsbury,' said the drawing-master, colouring, 'you are not a
man in narrow circumstances, and you have no family. Guendolen is
growing up, a very promising girl--she was confirmed this year;
and I think you will be able to enter into my feelings as a
parent when I tell you she is quite ignorant of dancing. The boys
are at the board school, which is all very well in its way; at
least, I am the last man in the world to criticize the
institutions of my native land. But I had fondly hoped that
Harold might become a professional musician; and little Otho
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: like the Moonshine of Pyramus and Thisbe, carried a lantern,
needlessly aiding his sister luminary in the heavens. As he
walked sleepily up the street, he turned his broad, dull face on
Robin, and displayed a long staff, spiked at the end.
"Home, vagabond, home!" said the watchman, in accents that seemed
to fall asleep as soon as they were uttered. "Home, or we'll set
you in the stocks by peep of day!"
"This is the second hint of the kind," thought Robin. "I wish
they would end my difficulties, by setting me there to-night."
Nevertheless, the youth felt an instinctive antipathy towards the
guardian of midnight order, which at first prevented him from
The Snow Image |
