| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that she should owe her life and honor to this fierce,
wild cut-throat who had sworn especial hatred against
her family, because of its relationship to the house of
Plantagenet. She could not fathom it, and yet, he seemed
fair spoken for so rough a man; she wondered what man-
ner of countenance might lie beneath that barred visor.
Once the outlaw took his cloak from its fastenings
at his saddle's cantel and threw it about the shoulders of
the girl, for the night air was chilly, and again he dis-
mounted and led her palfrey around a bad place in the
road, lest the beast might slip and fall.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: you are what is fairest under the skies," she said, caressing Henri's
hair. "You do not know how silly I am. I have learned nothing. Since I
was twelve years old I have been shut up without ever seeing any one.
I can neither read nor write, I can only speak English and Spanish."
"How is it, then, that you receive letters from London?"
"My letters? . . . See, here they are!" she said, proceeding to take
some papers out of a tall Japanese vase.
She offered De Marsay some letters, in which the young man saw, with
surprise, strange figures, similar to those of a rebus, traced in
blood, and illustrating phrases full of passion.
"But," he cried, marveling at these hieroglyphics created by the
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: as you would find it rather inconvenient to have blazoned through
the world: especially with the additions and exaggerations of your
female rivals, who would be too glad to publish the matter, if I
only gave them a handle to it. But I promise you, on the faith of
a gentleman, that no word or syllable that could tend to your
prejudice shall ever escape my lips, provided you will - "
'"Well, well, I won't mention it," said I. "You may rely upon my
silence, if that can afford you any consolation."
'"You promise it?"
'"Yes," I answered; for I wanted to get rid of him now.
'"Farewell, then!" said he, in a most doleful, heart-sick tone; and
Agnes Grey |
