| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: instigated no doubt by Girty and the British at Detroit. Now all kinds of
rumors were afloat: Washington was defeated; a close alliance between England
and the confederated western tribes had been formed; Girty had British power
and wealth back of him. These and many more alarming reports travelled from
settlement to settlement.
The death of Col. Crawford had been a terrible shock to the whole country. On
the border spread an universal gloom, and the low, sullen mutterings of
revengeful wrath. Crawford had been so prominent a man, so popular, and,
except in his last and fatal expedition, such an efficient leader that his
sudden taking off was almost a national calamity. In fact no one felt it more
keenly than did Washington himself, for Crawford was his esteemed friend.
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: love," he concluded slyly, and leered in a sort of bu-
colic way.
"As soon as he had left my ship I called Falk on
board by signal--the tug still lying at the anchor-
age. He took the news with calm gravity, as
though he had all along expected the stars to fight
for him in their courses.
I saw them once more together, and only once--
on the quarter-deck of the Diana. Hermann sat
smoking with a shirt-sleeved elbow hooked over the
back of his chair. Mrs. Hermann was sewing
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our
daughters must not even profit by the experience of others. Now I
would have both so to benefit by the experience of others, and the
precepts of a higher authority, that they should know beforehand to
refuse the evil and choose the good, and require no experimental
proofs to teach them the evil of transgression. I would not send a
poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of
the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her,
till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the
power or the will to watch and guard herself; - and as for my son -
if I thought he would grow up to be what you call a man of the
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
