| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: "The branches are very bare," said Gertrude anxiously. "If it
should come down heavily they will drip worse than the rain
itself."
"Much worse," said Agatha. "I think we had better get under the
veranda of the old chalet. It is not half a minute's walk from
here."
"But we have no right--" Here the sky darkened threateningly.
Miss Wilson checked herself and said, "I suppose it is still
empty."
"Of course," replied Agatha, impatient to be moving. "It is
almost a ruin."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: "But, then, consider," said Miss Ophelia, "when you set
him up for sale, the chances of his getting a bad master."
"O, that's all humbug!" said Marie; "it isn't one time in
a hundred that a good fellow gets a bad master; most masters are
good, for all the talk that is made. I've lived and grown up here,
in the South, and I never yet was acquainted with a master that
didn't treat his servants well,--quite as well as is worth while.
I don't feel any fears on that head."
"Well," said Miss Ophelia, energetically, "I know it was
one of the last wishes of your husband that Tom should have his
liberty; it was one of the promises that he made to dear little
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: Mrs. Miller now certainly looked at him--at his chin.
"Not very well, sir," she answered.
"She's got the dyspepsia," said Randolph. "I've got it too.
Father's got it. I've got it most!"
This announcement, instead of embarrassing Mrs. Miller,
seemed to relieve her. "I suffer from the liver," she said.
"I think it's this climate; it's less bracing than Schenectady,
especially in the winter season. I don't know whether you know
we reside at Schenectady. I was saying to Daisy that I certainly
hadn't found any one like Dr. Davis, and I didn't believe I should.
Oh, at Schenectady he stands first; they think everything of him.
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