| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: thinking of your husband, Baroness. Reassure yourself; he will
not return before Saturday, so you have still four days."
She responded to him with a sleepy smile.
"How rude you are." Then, shaking off her torpor, she added:
"Now, let somebody say something that will make us all laugh.
You, Monsieur Chenal who have the reputation of possessing a
larger fortune than the Duke of Richelieu, tell us a love story
in which you have been mixed up, anything you like."
Leon Chenal, an old painter, who had once keen very handsome,
very strong, who was very proud of his physique and very amiable,
took his long white beard in his hand and smiled; then, after a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: cutter, and the marble-cutters were out on a strike.
"What ails ye?" asked his mother, looking at him
curiously; "are ye not feeling well the morning,
maybe now?"
"He's thinking along of Annie Maria Doyle, im-
pudently explained younger brother Tim, ten years
old."
"Tiger" reached over the hand of a champion and
swept the small McQuirk from his chair.
"I feel fine," said he, "beyond a touch of the
I-don't-know-wbat-you-call-its. I feel like there was
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: cannot assign the day.
August. The affairs of France will seem to suffer no change for a
while under the Duke of Burgundy's administration; but the genius
that animated the whole machine being gone, will be the cause of
mighty turns and revolutions in the following year. The new King
makes yet little change either in the army or the ministry; but
the libels against his grandfather, that fly about his very
court, give him uneasiness.
I see an express in mighty haste, with joy and wonder in his
looks, arriving by break of day on the 26th of this month, having
travell'd in three days a prodigious journey by land and sea. In
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