| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: he was refused.
"In a few minutes," said the boy. "No need of excitement."
"Is it a fire?"
"I don't know myself. I've got my orders. That's all." Wilkins
came hurrying in. The crowd, silent and respectful before the law,
opened to let him through and closed behind him.
Bassett stood at the foot of the stairs, looking up.
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To Elizabeth the first days of Dick's absence were unbelievably
dreary. She seemed to live only from one visit of the postman to
the next. She felt sometimes that only part of her was at home
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Robin Hood hunted, and this riding was an old, old thoroughfare coming
across country. But now, of course, it was only a riding through the
private wood. The road from Mansfield swerved round to the north.
In the wood everything was motionless, the old leaves on the ground
keeping the frost on their underside. A jay called harshly, many little
birds fluttered. But there was no game; no pheasants. They had been
killed off during the war, and the wood had been left unprotected, till
now Clifford had got his game-keeper again.
Clifford loved the wood; he loved the old oak-trees. He felt they were
his own through generations. He wanted to protect them. He wanted this
place inviolate, shut off from the world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: ushered me in, closed them behind me. I found myself in a salon
with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and
sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove,
walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other
ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the
centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a
handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. All
looked extremely clean and glittering, but the general effect
would have been somewhat chilling had not a second large pair of
folding-doors, standing wide open, and disclosing another and
smaller salon, more snugly furnished, offered some relief to the
The Professor |
