| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: high words between us; God forgive me if I spoke too fiercely, for
I never saw him again."
"Too fiercely to an open traitor, Frank? Why not have run him
through?"
"Nay, I had no clean life for Sundays, Amyas; so I could not throw
away my week-day one; and as for the weal of England, I knew that
it was little he would damage it, and told him so. And at that he
waxed utterly mad, for it touched his pride, and swore that if the
wind had not been fair for sailing, he would have fought me there
and then; to which I could only answer, that I was ready to meet
him when he would; and he parted from me, saying, 'It is a pity,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: Knight showed himself keenly hurt at this. 'Stephen, those words
are untrue and unworthy of any man, and they are unworthy of you.
You know you wrong me. If you have ever profited by any
instruction of mine, I am only too glad to know it. You know it
was given ungrudgingly, and that I have never once looked upon it
as making you in any way a debtor to me.'
Stephen's naturally gentle nature was touched, and it was in a
troubled voice that he said, 'Yes, yes. I am unjust in that--I
own it.'
'This is St. Launce's Station, I think. Are you going to get
out?'
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: which the cinematograph picture had been taken.
We passed the scene of the wreck, McKnight with curiosity, I with
a sickening sense of horror. Back in the fields was the little
farm-house where Alison West and I had intended getting coffee, and
winding away from the track, maple trees shading it on each side,
was the lane where we had stopped to rest, and where I had - it
seemed presumption beyond belief now - where I had tried to comfort
her by patting her hand.
We got out at M-, a small place with two or three houses and a
general store. The station was a one-roomed affair, with a
railed-off place at the end, where a scale, a telegraph instrument
The Man in Lower Ten |
