| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: aboard for dinner. We'll be leaving tomorrow, so there won't
be much entertaining we can do."
"Let's pick him up on our way through town now,"
suggested Barbara Harding, "and take him with us for the
day. That will be settling our debt to friendship, and dinner
tonight can depend upon what sort of person we find the
count to be."
"As you will," replied her father, and so it came about that
two big touring cars drew up before the Count de Cadenet's
hotel half an hour later, and Anthony Harding, Esq., entered
and sent up his card.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: It had grown extremely pale, but as the meaning of his words
shaped itself in her mind he saw a curious inner light dawn
through her set look. She lifted her lids just far enough
for a veiled glance at him, and a smile slipped through them
to her trembling lips. For a moment the change merely
bewildered him; then it pulled him up with a sharp jerk of
apprehension.
"I don't think him a good match for you," he stammered,
groping for the lost thread of his words.
She threw a vague look about the chilly rain-dimmed room.
"And you've brought me here to tell me why?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: ing it."
"All right, consider me crying about it, and sorry.
Go on."
Jim says:
"Mars Tom, do dey jam dat duty onto everything
we can't raise in America, en don't make no 'stinction
'twix' anything?"
"Yes, that's what they do."
"Mars Tom, ain't de blessin' o' de Lord de mos'
valuable thing dey is?"
"Yes, it is."
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