| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: were rendered without any show of bustling instruction. Silas had
shown her the half-guinea given to him by Godfrey, and had asked her
what he should do about getting some clothes for the child.
"Eh, Master Marner," said Dolly, "there's no call to buy, no more
nor a pair o' shoes; for I've got the little petticoats as Aaron
wore five years ago, and it's ill spending the money on them
baby-clothes, for the child 'ull grow like grass i' May, bless it--
that it will."
And the same day Dolly brought her bundle, and displayed to Marner,
one by one, the tiny garments in their due order of succession, most
of them patched and darned, but clean and neat as fresh-sprung
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: "Well--there they are."
I pointed through the window of the hotel.
"Bah! And you call yourself a traveler? Look! The snow!
My friend Paul, must I ask twice for a favor?"
Once again we tossed a coin.
Ah, if Le Mire had only seen the future! And yet--I often
wonder--would she have turned her back? For the woman craved
novelty and adventure, and the gameness of centuries was in her
blood--well, she had her experience, which was shared only in part
by Harry and myself.
Those snow-capped peaks! Little did we guess what they held
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: whether the security I am going to offer is sufficient for the sum I
have come to borrow.'
" 'Precisely.'
"A cab stopped at the door, and the sound of wheels filled the room.
" 'I will bring something directly which perhaps will satisfy you,'
cried the young man, and he left the room.
" 'Oh! my son,' exclaimed Gobseck, rising to his feet, and stretching
out his arms to me, 'if he has good security, you have saved my life.
It would be the death of me. Werbrust and Gigonnet imagined that they
were going to play off a trick on me; and now, thanks to you, I shall
have a good laugh at their expense to-night.'
Gobseck |
