| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the soul of a man who might be overbearing, pitiless even, if
occasion demanded, but who would not murder - at least not for the
sake of gain. This last possibility Muller had dismissed from
his mind, even before he saw the prisoner. The man's reputation
was sufficient to make the thought ridiculous. But he had not made
up his mind whether it might not be a case of a murder after a
quarrel. Now he began to doubt even this when he looked into the
intelligent, harsh-featured face of the man in the cell. But Muller
had the gift of putting aside his own convictions, when he wanted
his mind clear to consider evidence before him.
Graumann had risen from his sitting position when he saw a stranger.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the Seven Gables as the scene of his commercial speculations?
We return to the elderly maiden. She at length withdrew her eyes
from the dark countenance of the Colonel's portrait, heaved a sigh,
--indeed, her breast was a very cave of Aolus that morning, --and
stept across the room on tiptoe, as is the customary gait of elderly
women. Passing through an intervening passage, she opened a door
that communicated with the shop, just now so elaborately described.
Owing to the projection of the upper story--and still more to the
thick shadow of the Pyncheon Elm, which stood almost directly in
front of the gable--the twilight, here, was still as much akin to
night as morning. Another heavy sigh from Miss Hepzibah! After a
House of Seven Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: fleece?'
And Hera stirred the hearts of all the princes, and they came
from all their valleys to the yellow sands of Pagasai. And
first came Heracles the mighty, with his lion's skin and
club, and behind him Hylas his young squire, who bore his
arrows and his bow; and Tiphys, the skilful steersman; and
Butes, the fairest of all men; and Castor and Polydeuces the
twins, the sons of the magic swan; and Caeneus, the strongest
of mortals, whom the Centaurs tried in vain to kill, and
overwhelmed him with trunks of pine-trees, but even so he
would not die; and thither came Zetes and Calais, the winged
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