| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: She wished she could feel something, could think it vital whether
Nina should choose pink or blue for her layette, and how far she
should walk each day, and if the chauffeur drove the car carefully
enough. She wished she cared whether it was going to rain to-morrow
or not, or whether some one was coming, or not coming. And she
wished terribly that she could care for Wallie, or get over the
feeling that she had saved her pride at a cost to him she would not
contemplate.
After a time she went upstairs and put on the bracelet. And late
in the afternoon she went out and bought some wool, to make an
afghan. It eased her conscience toward Nina. She commenced it
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: come to an understanding about the wine. Will you take the 'Globe'?"
"I stand on the globe."
"Will you advance its interests in this district?"
"I advance."
"And?"
"And--"
"And I--but you do subscribe, don't you, to the 'Globe'?"
"The globe, good thing, for life," said the lunatic.
"For life, Monsieur?--ah, I see! yes, you are right: it is full of
life, vigor, intellect, science,--absolutely crammed with science,--
well printed, clear type, well set up; what I call 'good nap.' None of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho,
lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner,
incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an
expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty
to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity,
in being already engaged for the evening.
CHAPTER 8
In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker, however,
the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms
in very good time. The Thorpes and James Morland
were there only two minutes before them; and Isabella
Northanger Abbey |
