| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: least their backs and shoulders towards Lochnagar, are all
smoothed and polished till they are as round as the backs of
sheep, "roches moutonnees," as the French call ice-polished rocks;
and then, if you understand what that means, you will say, as I
said, "I am perfectly certain that this great basin between me and
Lochnagar, which is now 3000 feet deep of empty air was once
filled up with ice to the height of the hills on which I stand--
about 1700 feet high--and that that ice ran over into Glen Muick,
between these pretty knolls, and covered the ground where Birk
Hall now stands."
And more:- When you see growing on those knolls of serpentine a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: What else could poor Wendy do? She called to Peter and John
and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply. She did not
yet know that Tink hated her with the fierce hatred of a very
woman. And so, bewildered, and now staggering in her flight, she
followed Tink to her doom.
Chapter 5
THE ISLAND COME TRUE
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again
woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened,
but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The
Peter Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: rock terrace of the Promenade, "put everything in order. As for the
salon, you can leave that as it is," she added, with a smile which
women reserve for their nearest friends, the delicate sentiment of
which men seldom understand.
"Ah! how sweet you are!" exclaimed the little maid.
"A lover is our beauty--foolish women that we are!" she replied gaily.
Francine left her lying on the ottoman and went away convinced that,
whether her mistress were loved or not, she would never betray
Montauran.
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"Are you sure of what you are telling me, old woman?" Hulot was saying
The Chouans |
