| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Tell him," said Berry.
"We've been thinking it over," said Daphne, "and we've come to
the conclusion that you'd better call."
"On whom? For what?"
"Be call-boy."
I rose to my feet.
"Ladies and gentlemen," I said, " I have to thank you this day-
it is meant for a day, isn't it I- for the honour you have done
me. Although I can scarcely hope to sustain the role in a manner
worthy of the best traditions of- "
"We'd cast you for something else, if it was safe," said Daphne.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: for Dr Shirley's leaving Uppercross; farther on, she had
first seen Mr Elliot; a moment seemed all that could now be given
to any one but Louisa, or those who were wrapt up in her welfare.
Captain Benwick was most considerately attentive to her; and,
united as they all seemed by the distress of the day, she felt
an increasing degree of good-will towards him, and a pleasure even
in thinking that it might, perhaps, be the occasion of continuing
their acquaintance.
Captain Wentworth was on the watch for them, and a chaise and four in waiting,
stationed for their convenience in the lowest part of the street;
but his evident surprise and vexation at the substitution of one sister
Persuasion |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: said Amy, trying to decide how she would group the lovers in a sketch
she was planning to make.
"No, I'm sure I can't. How much has happened since I said that!
It seems a year ago," answered Meg, who was in a blissful dream
lifted far above such common things as bread and butter.
"The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather
think the changes have begun," said Mrs. March. "In most families
there comes, now and then, a year full of events. This has been such
a one, but it ends well, after all."
"Hope the next will end better," muttered Jo, who found it very
hard to see Meg absorbed in a stranger before her face, for Jo loved
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