| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: got her in a good place?"
I says:
"Why, that's just what I was going to ask your
grace."
Then he didn't look so joyful, and says:
"What was your idea for asking ME?" he says.
"Well," I says, "when I see the king in that dog-
gery yesterday I says to myself, we can't get him
home for hours, till he's soberer; so I went a-loafing
around town to put in the time and wait. A man up
and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: As the travellers approached more nearly, they discovered marks
of recent additions to the defences of the place, which had been
suggested, doubtless, by the insecurity of those troublesome
times. Additional loop-holes for musketry were struck out in
different parts of the building, and of its surrounding wall.
The windows had just been carefully secured by stancheons of
iron, crossing each other athwart and end-long, like the grates
of a prison. The door of the court-yard was shut; and it was
only after cautious challenge that one of its leaves was opened
by two domestics, both strong Highlanders, and both under arms,
like Bitias and Pandarus in the AEneid, ready to defend the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: mother tells you and are just gushing, frisky, young idiots,
snubs will be your portion. If you do as she tells you,
you'll marry princes and live happily ever after."
Dr. Grill must be a German rose. In this part of
the world the more you are pleased to see a person the less
is he pleased to see you; whereas, if you are disagreeable,
he will grow pleasant visibly, his countenance expanding
into wider amiability the more your own is stiff and sour.
But I was not Prepared for that sort of thing in a rose,
and was disgusted with Dr. Grill. He had the best place in
the garden--warm, sunny, and sheltered; his holes were prepared
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
