| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: exchanged a few words, spoken low, and indistinctly.
But, when the dishes were removed, and their place supplied by
liquors of various sorts, Captain Dalgetty no longer had,
himself, the same weighty reasons for silence, and began to tire
of that of the rest of the company. He commenced a new attack
upon his landlord, upon the former ground.
"Touching that round monticle, or hill, or eminence, termed
Drumsnab, I would be proud to hold some dialogue with you, Sir
Duncan, on the nature of the sconce to be there constructed; and
whether the angles thereof should be acute or obtuse--anent whilk
I have heard the great Velt-Mareschal Bannier hold a learned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: appear on a higher social plane. But, arguing with himself,
stumbling about in ways that he knew not, he, once, almost came to
a conclusion that his sister would have been more firmly good had
she better known why. However, he felt that he could not hold such
a view. He threw it hastily aside.
Chapter XIV
In a hilarious hall there were twenty-eight tables and twenty-
eight women and a crowd of smoking men. Valiant noise was made on
a stage at the end of the hall by an orchestra composed of men who
looked as if they had just happened in. Soiled waiters ran to and
fro, swooping down like hawks on the unwary in the throng;
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: with his arms around their shoulders, they led
him off amid cheers from the stands. Mac was
white with pain.
``Naw, I won't go off the field. Leave me on
the bench,'' he said. ``Fight 'em now. It's our
game. Never mind a couple of runs.''
The boys ran back to their positions and Carter
called play. Perhaps a little delay had been helpful
to the Rube. Slowly he stepped into the box
and watched Shultz at third and Carl at second.
There was not much probability of his throwing
The Redheaded Outfield |
