| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: ered up her reins.
"But I will be, in a minute. Please wait for
me, Marie," Emil coaxed. "Alexandra sent me
to mow our lot, but I've done half a dozen
others, you see. Just wait till I finish off the
Kourdnas'. By the way, they were Bohemians.
Why aren't they up in the Catholic grave-
yard?"
"Free-thinkers," replied the young woman
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: the donor; it grew to a superb dog, whose fierceness, however,
was much modified by the companionship and caresses of its young
master. He would go nowhere, do nothing without Yorke; Yorke
lay at his feet while he learned his lessons, played with him in
the garden, walked with him in the lane and wood, sat near his
chair at meals, was fed always by his own hand, was the first
thing he sought in the morning, the last he left at night. Yorke
accompanied Mr. Hunsden one day to X----, and was bitten in the
street by a dog in a rabid state. As soon as Hunsden had brought
him home, and had informed me of the circumstance, I went into
the yard and shot him where he lay licking his wound: he was
The Professor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: trousers; his hat was tied under his chin with a napkin, and
he stood aft the foremast, to which he had lashed himself with
a gasket or small rope round his waist, to prevent his falling
upon deck or being washed overboard. When the writer looked
up, he appeared to smile, which afforded a further symptom of
the confidence of the crew in their ship. This person on
watch was as completely wetted as if he had been drawn through
the sea, which was given as a reason for his not putting on a
greatcoat, that he might wet as few of his clothes as
possible, and have a dry shift when he went below. Upon deck
everything that was movable was out of sight, having either
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