| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: immediate discussion of this engagement, which Edmund
spoke of with the warmest satisfaction, as so particularly
desirable for her in the intimacy which he saw with
so much pleasure established, it was a silent walk;
for having finished that subject, he grew thoughtful
and indisposed for any other.
CHAPTER XXIII
"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?" said Lady Bertram.
"How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never
dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot
spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go.
Mansfield Park |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: sat down on the floor. "Where did you find it?
I didn't know he had kept it. I haven't seen
it for years."
"It really is a cane, then?"
"Yes. One he brought from the old coun-
try. He used to carry it when I first knew him.
Isn't it foolish? Poor Frank!"
Alexandra twirled the stick in her fingers and
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "Excellent laws," said the baron: "excellent, by the holy rood.
William of Normandy, with my great great grandfather Fierabras
at his elbow, could not have made better. And now, sweet Mawd----"
"A fine, a fine," cried the friar, "a fine, by the article of courtesy."
"Od's life," said the baron, "shall I not call my own
daughter Mawd? Methinks there should be a special exception
in my favour."
"It must not be," said Robin Hood: "our constitution admits no privilege."
"But I will commute," said the friar; "for twenty marks a year
duly paid into my ghostly pocket you shall call your daughter
Mawd two hundred times a day."
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