| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: "Why, Tom, it's so, sure! It's as solid as a cow.
I sort of begin to think--"
"Huck, it's biting off a chaw of tobacker! By George,
THEY don't chaw--they hain't got anything to chaw WITH.
Huck!"
"I'm a-listening."
"It ain't a ghost at all. It's Jake Dunlap his own self!"
"Oh your granny!" I says.
"Huck Finn, did we find any corpse in the sycamores?"
"No."
"Or any sign of one?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: have just lost 700,000 francs upon the Spanish loan."
"And pray," asked the baroness, "am I responsible for this
loss?"
"Why not?"
"Is it my fault you have lost 700,000 francs?"
"Certainly it is not mine."
"Once for all, sir," replied the baroness sharply, "I tell
you I will not hear cash named; it is a style of language I
never heard in the house of my parents or in that of my
first husband."
"Oh, I can well believe that, for neither of them was worth
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: remarkably attentive, and were the loudest in their approbation.
It was not all noise and jest, however, at The Boot, nor were the
whole party listeners to the speech. There were some men at the
other end of the room (which was a long, low-roofed chamber) in
earnest conversation all the time; and when any of this group went
out, fresh people were sure to come in soon afterwards and sit down
in their places, as though the others had relieved them on some
watch or duty; which it was pretty clear they did, for these
changes took place by the clock, at intervals of half an hour.
These persons whispered very much among themselves, and kept aloof,
and often looked round, as jealous of their speech being overheard;
Barnaby Rudge |
