| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: "Do not believe him, monsieur. Here I am queen, and I prefer to
be queen here rather than a slave in Paris."
"Mademoiselle," said Andre-Louis, quite solemnly, "will be queen
wherever she condescends to reign."
Her only answer was a timid - timid and yet alluring - glance from
under fluttering lids. Meanwhile her father was bawling at the
comely young man who played lovers - "You hear, Leandre! That is
the sort of speech you should practise."
Leandre raised languid eyebrows. "That?" quoth he, and shrugged.
"The merest commonplace."
Andre-Louis laughed approval. "M. Leandre is of a readier wit than
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: his face and his gray eyes gazed steadily into hers. Then his head fell back.
With a sigh his brave spirit fled.
Hugh Bennet looked once at the pale face of his son, then he ran down the
stairs after Silas and Clarke. When the three men emerged from behind Capt.
Boggs' cabin, which was adjacent to the block-house, and which hid the south
wall from their view, they were two hundred feet from Wetzel They heard the
heavy thump of a log being rammed against the fence; then a splitting and
splintering of one of the six-inch oak planks. Another and another smashing
blow and the lower half of one of the planks fell inwards, leaving an aperture
large enough to admit an Indian. The men dashed forward to the assistance of
Wetzel, who stood by the hole with upraised axe. At the same moment a shot
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: now took the precaution of putting on her crimson bow every evening
before supper, and that she had refurbished with a bit of carefully
washed lace the black silk which they still called new because it
had been bought a year after Ann Eliza's.
Mr. Ramy, as he grew more intimate, became less
conversational, and after the sisters had blushingly accorded him
the privilege of a pipe he began to permit himself long stretches
of meditative silence that were not without charm to his hostesses.
There was something at once fortifying and pacific in the sense of
that tranquil male presence in an atmosphere which had so long
quivered with little feminine doubts and distresses; and the
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