| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: helplessly from Aunt Selina to the half dollar, and then at me.
Anne was trying not to catch my eye.
"And another thing," Aunt Selina said, from the head of the
stairs, "I sent those towels over from Ireland. Tell her to wash
and bleach the one Mrs. What's-her-name Brown used as a duster."
Anne was quite crushed as we went down the stairs. I turned once,
half-way down, and her face was a curious mixture of guilt and
hopeless wrath. Over her shoulder, I could see Hannah, wide-eyed
and puzzled, staring after us.
Jim presented everybody, and then he went into the den and closed
the door and we heard him unlock the cellarette. Aunt Selina
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: down, and the marks of horses' hoofs were clearly
to be seen. A little further he saw Gerassim,
who was sitting and eating his meal, and the horses
tied to a tree.
The soldier ran to the village and brought back
the bailiff, a police officer, and two witnesses.
They surrounded on three sides the spot where
Gerassim was sitting and seized the man. He did
not deny anything; but, being drunk, told them at
once how Ivan Mironov had given him plenty of
drink, and induced him to steal the horses; he
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: true, but I believed myself right." "But what was this mistake to which
your ladyship so often alludes! from whence arose so astonishing a
misconception of your daughter's feelings! Did you not know that she
disliked Sir James?" "I knew that he was not absolutely the man she would
have chosen, but I was persuaded that her objections to him did not arise
from any perception of his deficiency. You must not question me, however,
my dear sister, too minutely on this point," continued she, taking me
affectionately by the hand; "I honestly own that there is something to
conceal. Frederica makes me very unhappy! Her applying to Mr. De Courcy
hurt me particularly." "What is it you mean to infer," said I, " by this
appearance of mystery? If you think your daughter at all attached to
Lady Susan |
