| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: given him of meeting the distinguished novelist; a danger, however,
that disappeared with Vereker's leaving England for an indefinite
absence, as the newspapers announced - going to the south for
motives connected with the health of his wife, which had long kept
her in retirement. A year - more than a year - had elapsed since
the incident at Bridges, but I had had no further sight of him. I
think I was at bottom rather ashamed - I hated to remind him that,
though I had irremediably missed his point, a reputation for
acuteness was rapidly overtaking me. This scruple led me a dance;
kept me out of Lady Jane's house, made me even decline, when in
spite of my bad manners she was a second time so good as to make me
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and a boxful arrives for me every day from Haarlem. Tonight Dr. Van
Helsing is going away, as he has to be for a day in Amsterdam.
But I need not be watched. I am well enough to be left alone.
Thank God for Mother's sake, and dear Arthur's, and for all our
friends who have been so kind! I shall not even feel the change,
for last night Dr. Van Helsing slept in his chair a lot of the time.
I found him asleep twice when I awoke. But I did not fear to go
to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something flapped
almost angrily against the window panes.
THE PALL MALL GAZETTE 18 September.
THE ESCAPED WOLF PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF OUR INTERVIEWER
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: details of the "cut-glass" industry. Invariably his mind would
wander back to the unexpected incidents of the morning. Stopping
suddenly in the middle of a letter to a competing firm, he began
pacing hurriedly up and down the room.
Had she not feared that her chief might misconstrue any
suggestion from her as an act of impertinence, Miss Perkins,
having learned all the company's cut-glass quotations by rote,
could easily have supplied the remainder of the letter. As it
was, she waited impatiently, tapping the corner of the desk with
her idle pencil. Jimmy turned at the sound, and glanced at the
pencil with unmistakable disapproval. Miss Perkins waited in
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