| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: she cannot marry him. A heretic! I no longer
think of the terrible separation. Were he a Cath-
olic I should not think of myself again. But it
cannot be. Oh, padre, what shall we do?"
They talked for a long while, and after further
consultation with Don Jose and Father Landaeta,
it was decided that Concha should remain for the
present in the house of Juan Moraga, where she
could receive the daily counsels of the priests, and
be beyond the reach of Rezanov. Meanwhile, all
influence would be brought to bear upon the Gov-
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: in and laid the paper of sugar on the berth, and sat
down soft and sheepish and went to listening to Bud
Dixon snore. Hal Clayton dropped off pretty soon,
but I didn't; I wasn't ever so wide awake in my life.
I was spying out from under the shade of my hat brim,
searching the floor for leather. It took me a long time,
and I begun to think maybe my guess was wrong, but at
last I struck it. It laid over by the bulkhead, and was
nearly the color of the carpet. It was a little round
plug about as thick as the end of your little finger,
and I says to myself there's a di'mond in the nest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: candelabra in the center of the room.
They pulled their empty hands out of the heap of paper,
cursing. But War Paint was of sterner stuff; tirelessly she
continued to unlock drawer after drawer without failing
to investigate a single spot. In their absorption, they did
not notice a small gray velvet-covered box which rolled
silently across the floor, coming to a stop at Luis Cer-
vantes' feet.
Demetrio, lying on the rug, seemed to be asleep; Cer-
vantes, who had watched everything with profound in-
difference, pulled the box closer to him with his foot, and
The Underdogs |
