| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: in total darkness. I listened for some noise, but heard nothing. A
very long time elapsed. I grew weary: it was cold, in spite of the
cloak; and then I did not see the use of staying, as I was not to
rouse the house. I was on the point of risking Mr. Rochester's
displeasure by disobeying his orders, when the light once more
gleamed dimly on the gallery wall, and I heard his unshod feet tread
the matting. "I hope it is he," thought I, "and not something
worse."
He re-entered, pale and very gloomy. "I have found it all out,"
said he, setting his candle down on the washstand; "it is as I
thought."
Jane Eyre |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: have in view and the means which are at their disposal, but
without which they could neither act nor subsist. The
governments which are founded upon a single principle or a single
feeling which is easily defined are perhaps not the best, but
they are unquestionably the strongest and the most durable in the
world.
In examining the Constitution of the United States, which is
the most perfect federal constitution that ever existed, one is
startled, on the other hand, at the variety of information and
the excellence of discretion which it presupposes in the people
whom it is meant to govern. The government of the Union depends
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: get a little lighter, and he flung his overcoat upon
her, and sat down by her side.
"Angel, if anything happens to me, will you watch over
'Liza-Lu for my sake?" she asked, when they had
listened a long time to the wind among the pillars.
"I will."
"She is so good and simple and pure. O, Angel--I wish
you would marry her if you lose me, as you will do
shortly. O, if you would!"
"If I lose you I lose all! And she is my
sister-in-law."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
