| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a brother of Henry Livingstone, who died some years ago at Dry
River. This refers to a personal matter connected with the
Livingstone estate."
The Sheriff took the letter and reread it. He was puzzled.
"You're a good talker," he acknowledged grudgingly. He turned to
the maid.
"All right, Hattie," he said. "We'll have that story again. But
just a minute." He turned to the reporter. "Mrs. Thorwald here
hasn't seen Lizzie Lazarus, the squaw. Lizzie has been sitting in
my office ever since noon. Now, Hattie."
Hattie moistened her dry lips.
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: was playing at Les Aigues; consequently, the general fully understood
a system of plundering.
In planting cabbages, to use the expression of the first Duc de Biron,
the old cuirassier sought to divert his mind, by occupation, from
dwelling on his fall. Though he had yielded his "corps d'armee" to the
Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the
disbanding of the army of the Loire) could not atone for the crime of
having followed the man of the Hundred-Days to his last battle-field.
In presence of the allied army it was impossible for the peer of 1815
to remain in the service, still less at the Luxembourg. Accordingly,
Montcornet betook himself to the country by advice of a dismissed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: hospitals. How can you risk it with Ellador? You'd better break
it to her gently before she really makes up her mind."
Jeff was right. I ought to have told her more fully than I did,
of all the things we had to be ashamed of. But it is very hard to
bridge the gulf of as deep a difference as existed between our life
and theirs. I tried to.
"Look here, my dear," I said to her. "If you are really
going to my country with me, you've got to be prepared for a good
many shocks. It's not as beautiful as this--the cities, I mean,
the civilized parts--of course the wild country is."
"I shall enjoy it all," she said, her eyes starry with hope.
Herland |
