| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: taken her or what they're goin' to do with her."
As he spoke he turned his eyes for the first time away from
Grayson and looked full in Anthony Harding's face. The
latter saw beneath the strong character lines of the other's
countenance the agony of fear and doubt that lay heavy upon
his heart.
In the brief instant that Billy's watchful gaze left the figure
of the ranch foreman the latter saw the opportunity he craved.
He was standing directly in the doorway--a single step would
carry him out of range of Byrne's gun, placing a wall between
it and him, and Grayson was not slow in taking that step.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: her confined, and who am now escorting her back to the Castle of
Ellieslaw?"
"Is this so, Miss Vere?" said Mareschal.
"It is," answered Isabella, eagerly,--"it is so; for Heaven's
sake sheathe your swords. I will swear by all that is sacred,
that I was carried off by ruffians, whose persons and object were
alike unknown to me, and am now restored to freedom by means of
this gentleman's gallant interference."
"By whom, and wherefore, could this have been done?" pursued
Mareschal.--"Had you no knowledge of the place to which you were
conveyed?--Earnscliff, where did you find this lady?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: "Ten thousand dollars," said the lady, sweetly.
"Or--"
"Or the fulfillment of the engagement to marry."
"I think it is time," interrupted Blue-Tie, "for me to be allowed to
say a word or two. You and I, cousin, belong to a family that has
held its head pretty high. You have been brought up in a section of
the country very different from the one where our branch of the family
lived. Yet both of us are Carterets, even if some of our ways and
theories differ. You remember, it is a tradition of the family, that
no Carteret ever failed in chivalry to a lady or failed to keep his
word when it was given."
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