| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: beside that, their high birth, their warlike story, their
wanderings, adventures, and prospects had given them a glamour of
their own.
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The very day that Travers and d'Alcacer had come on board the
Emma Hassim and Immada had departed on their mission; for
Lingard, of course, could not think of leaving the white people
alone with Jorgenson. Jorgenson was all right, but his
ineradicable habit of muttering in his moustache about "throwing
a lighted match amongst the powder barrels" had inspired Lingard
with a certain amount of mistrust. And, moreover, he did not want
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: "Well?" she said, going into the hall.
"I'm sorry I lost my temper and said rude things, and
I'm willing to go and tell Mrs. Lynde so."
"Very well." Marilla's crispness gave no sign of her
relief. She had been wondering what under the canopy she
should do if Anne did not give in. "I'll take you down
after milking."
Accordingly, after milking, behold Marilla and Anne
walking down the lane, the former erect and triumphant,
the latter drooping and dejected. But halfway down Anne's
dejection vanished as if by enchantment. She lifted her
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: follow your hand when you drawed. All the fellers who seen you
meet Bosomer had somethin' to say. Bo was about as handy with a
gun as any man in this camp, barrin' Chess Alloway an' mebbe
Bland himself. Chess is the captain with a Colt--or he was. An'
he shore didn't like the references made about your speed.
Bland was honest in acknowledgin' it, but he didn't like it,
neither. Some of the fellers allowed your draw might have been
just accident. But most of them figgered different. An' they
all shut up when Bland told who an' what your Dad was. 'Pears
to me I once seen your Dad in a gunscrape over at Santone,
years ago. Wal, I put my oar in to-day among the fellers, an' I
The Lone Star Ranger |
