| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: sent it."
"I met William Larkins," continued Mr. Elton, "as I got near
the house, and he told me I should not find his master at home,
but I did not believe him.--William seemed rather out of humour.
He did not know what was come to his master lately, he said, but he
could hardly ever get the speech of him. I have nothing to do with
William's wants, but it really is of very great importance that I
should see Knightley to-day; and it becomes a matter, therefore,
of very serious inconvenience that I should have had this hot walk
to no purpose."
Emma felt that she could not do better than go home directly.
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: born in that cheerless heart, where for so long a lonely inmate, the ghost of
old love, had dwelt in chill seclusion.
The feeling of comradeship which Wetzel had for Joe was something altogether
new in the hunter's life. True he had hunted with Jonathan Zane, and
accompanied expeditions where he was forced to sleep with another scout; but a
companion, not to say friend, he had never known. Joe was a boy, wilder than
an eagle, yet he was a man. He was happy and enthusiastic, still his good
spirits never jarred on the hunter; they were restrained. He never asked
questions, as would seem the case in any eager lad; he waited until he was
spoken to. He was apt; he never forgot anything; he had the eye of a born
woodsman, and lastly, perhaps what went far with Wetzel, he was as strong and
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: one, though."
"Tell her to come and see you at the sub-prefecture."
"Yes, monsieur. I'll go and tell her now."
"Don't say anything about me, or she might not come."
"Ah! monsieur; haven't I served at Gondreville?"
"You don't know why they sent that message from Cinq-Cygne at this
hour, do you? It is half-past nine o'clock.'
"It must have been something pressing. The gentleman had only just
returned from Gondreville."
"Gondreville!--has he been to Gondreville?"
"He dined there, monsieur. If you went to the Mulet you'd laugh! The
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