| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: but not for the sake of the infant.
They called the baby Arthur. He was very pretty, with a
mop of gold curls, and he loved his father from the first.
Mrs. Morel was glad this child loved the father. Hearing the
miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow.
And if Morel were in a good temper, he called back immediately,
in his hearty, mellow voice:
"What then, my beauty? I sh'll come to thee in a minute."
And as soon as he had taken off his pit-coat, Mrs. Morel would
put an apron round the child, and give him to his father.
"What a sight the lad looks!" she would exclaim sometimes,
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: way as if about to attack them; then stopped instead, saluted, and was
turning downhill. It was only the new game-keeper, but he had
frightened Connie, he seemed to emerge with such a swift menace. That
was how she had seen him, like the sudden rush of a threat out of
nowhere.
He was a man in dark green velveteens and gaiters...the old style, with
a red face and red moustache and distant eyes. He was going quickly
downhill.
'Mellors!' called Clifford.
The man faced lightly round, and saluted with a quick little gesture, a
soldier!
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: about personal dignity, except the dignity of not being mean or foolish,
he could hardly allow enough for the way in which Lydgate shrank,
as from a burn, from the utterance of any word about his private affairs.
And soon after that conversation at Mr. Toller's, the Vicar
learned something which made him watch the more eagerly for an
opportunity of indirectly letting Lydgate know that if he wanted
to open himself about any difficulty there was a friendly ear ready.
The opportunity came at Mr. Vincy's, where, on New Year's Day,
there was a party, to which Mr. Farebrother was irresistibly invited,
on the plea that he must not forsake his old friends on the first
new year of his being a greater man, and Rector as well as Vicar.
Middlemarch |
