| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: the money - the crudity of the alternative was comical - and swept
out of the room with the desperate concession: "You may tell him
any horror you like!"
CHAPTER VI
A couple of days after this, during which he had failed to profit
by so free a permission, he had been for a quarter of an hour
walking with his charge in silence when the boy became sociable
again with the remark: "I'll tell you how I know it; I know it
through Zenobie."
"Zenobie? Who in the world is SHE?"
"A nurse I used to have - ever so many years ago. A charming
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: succeeded, by that esprit de corps which doubles the
strength of the soldier, in getting together in one group to
the amount of about fifty men; and that, with the exception
of a dozen stragglers whom he still saw rolling here and
there, the nucleus was complete, and within reach of his
voice. But it was not the musketeers and guards only that
drew the attention of D'Artagnan. Around the gibbets, and
particularly at the entrances to the arcade of Saint Jean,
moved a noisy mass, a busy mass; daring faces, resolute
demeanors were to be seen here and there, mingled with silly
faces and indifferent demeanors; signals were exchanged,
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: of it all summer."
"I've got to go to bed."
"All right."
He waited, looking at me with suppressed eagerness.
"I talked with Miss Baker," I said after a moment. "I'm going to call up
Daisy to-morrow and invite her over here to tea."
"Oh, that's all right," he said carelessly. "I don't want to put you to
any trouble."
"What day would suit you?"
"What day would suit YOU?" he corrected me quickly. "I don't want to put
you to any trouble, you see."
The Great Gatsby |
