| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: Staverton, as if once more with her fine intentions - "it wasn't
only that."
His eyes, as he lay, turned back to her. "What more then?"
She met it, the wonder she had stirred. "In the cold dim dawn, you
say? Well, in the cold dim dawn of this morning I too saw you."
"Saw ME - ?"
"Saw HIM," said Alice Staverton. "It must have been at the same
moment."
He lay an instant taking it in - as if he wished to be quite
reasonable. "At the same moment?"
"Yes - in my dream again, the same one I've named to you. He came
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: an infuriated moose near South Bend, Ind., where he had gone to try to
forget scenes of civilisation.' With which, Mr. Redruth forsook the
face of mankind and became a hermit, as we have seen.
"My story," concluded the young man with an Agency, "may lack the
literary quality; but what I wanted it to show is that the young lady
remained true. She cared nothing for wealth in comparison with true
affection. I admire and believe in the fair sex too much to think
otherwise."
The narrator ceased, with a sidelong glance at the corner where
reclined the lady passenger.
Bildad Rose was next invited by Judge Menefee to contribute his story
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ing of Norman of Torn. Ah, what a sublime revenge! I
have waited long, thou cur of a King, to return the blow
thou struck that day, but the return shall be an hundred
fold increased by long accumulated interest."
Quickly the wiry figure hastened through the pas-
sageways and corridors, until he came to the great hall
where sat De Montfort and the King, with Philip of
France and many others, gentlemen and nobles.
Before the guard at the door could halt him he had
broken into the room, and, addressing the King, cried:
"Wouldst take the Devil of Torn, My Lord King? He
The Outlaw of Torn |
