| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Yes, my good friend; I want to get into this house again. But not
on false pretenses this time. And before you let me in you can go
upstairs and ask Mrs. Bernauer if she will receive me in her own
room - in her own room, mind. But make haste; I am in a hurry."
The detective's tone was calm and he strolled slowly up and down in
front of the gate when he had finished speaking.
The old butler hesitated a moment, then walked into the house.
When he returned, rather more quickly, he looked alarmed and his
tone was very humble as he asked Muller to follow him.
When the detective entered Mrs. Bernauer's room the housekeeper
rose slowly from the large armchair in front of her table. She was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: opportunity for a sound of derision. "Rather new? I hope so with
all my heart!"
"I mean," he explained, "that she might have affected you by her
exquisite amiability--a real revelation, it has seemed to myself;
her high rarity, her distinction of every sort."
He had been, with these words, consciously a little "precious"; but
he had had to be--he couldn't give her the truth of the case
without them; and it seemed to him moreover now that he didn't
care. He had at all events not served his cause, for she sprang at
its exposed side. "A 'revelation'--to ME: I've come to such a
woman for a revelation? You talk to me about 'distinction'--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: "Seven hundred and seventy-seventh," again said Bildad, without
lifting his eyes; and then went on mumbling--"for where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also."
"I am going to put him down for the three hundredth," said Peleg, "do
ye hear that, Bildad! The three hundredth lay, I say."
Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards him said,
"Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider
the duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship--widows and
orphans, many of them--and that if we too abundantly reward the
labors of this young man, we may be taking the bread from those
widows and those orphans. The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay,
Moby Dick |
