| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree.
Anne was not animated to an equal pitch by the circumstance,
but she felt that she would rather see Mr Elliot again than not,
which was more than she could say for many other persons in Bath.
She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove
to her own lodgings, in Rivers Street.
Chapter 15
Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place,
a lofty dignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence;
and both he and Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.
Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment
Persuasion |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: buzz of talk and flutter of fans and kerchiefs, but all was very
quiet and serious.
Myles riding upon his horse, with Gascoyne holding the
bridle-rein, and his attorney walking beside him with his hand
upon the stirrups, followed the Constable across the lists to an
open space in front of the seat where the King sat. Then, having
reached his appointed station, he stopped, and the Constable,
advancing to the foot of the stair-way that led to the dais
above, announced in a loud voice that the challenger had entered
the lists.
"Then called the defendant straightway," said the King, "for noon
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: the attack. The Royalists therefore fell back into the city.
When the king re-entered Worcester he saw before him a scene of
the most disastrous confusion. Royalists and Republicans
encountered and fought each other in every thoroughfare; the air
was filled with the report of muskets, the imprecations of
soldiers, the groans of wounded men, and the shrieks of women.
The streets ran red with blood. At such a sight his heart sank
within him, but, manning himself for fresh efforts, he called his
troops together and sought to incite them with courage to make a
final charge. "I would rather," he cried out, "you would shoot
me than keep me alive to see the sad consequences of this fatal
|
