| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: both with such a galliard air, without undergoing stern question
before a magistrate, and probably incurring a fine or
imprisonment, or perhaps an exhibition in the stocks. As
regarded the shipmaster, however, all was looked upon as
pertaining to the character, as to a fish his glistening scales.
After parting from the physician, the commander of the Bristol
ship strolled idly through the market-
The Scarlet Letter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to
salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction
for itself. "I never saw so good a place as this Apia," said one
of these; "you can be in a new conspiracy every day!" Many, on the
other hand, are sincerely concerned for the future of the country.
The quarters are so close and the scale is so small, that perhaps
not any one can be trusted always to preserve his temper. Every
one tells everything he knows; that is our country sickness.
Nearly every one has been betrayed at times, and told a trifle
more; the way our sickness takes the predisposed. And the news
flies, and the tongues wag, and fists are shaken. Pot boil and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: when Thomasin said with pleasant pertness as she went
on with some sewing, "Of course you must sit down here.
And where does your fifty-cow dairy lie, Mr. Venn?"
"At Stickleford--about two miles to the right of Alderworth,
ma'am, where the meads begin. I have thought that if
Mr. Yeobright would like to pay me a visit sometimes he
shouldn't stay away for want of asking. I'll not bide
to tea this afternoon, thank'ee, for I've got something
on hand that must be settled. 'Tis Maypole-day tomorrow,
and the Shadwater folk have clubbed with a few of your
neighbours here to have a pole just outside your palings
Return of the Native |
