| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bling, he said, 'I do indeed fear thunder and lightning
much, but, by the hand of God, I tremble before you
more than for all the thunder in Heaven!'"
"I surmise," interjected the grim, old man, "that De
Montfort has in some manner gained an ascendancy
over the King. Think you he looks so high as the throne
itself?"
"Not so," cried the oldest of the knights. "Simon de
Montfort works for England's weal alone--and methinks,
nay knowest, that he would be first to spring to arms
to save the throne for Henry. He but fights the King's
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: or three rows of string-beans and as many more that were about
to festoon themselves on poles; tomatoes, occupying a site so
sheltered and sunny that the plants were already gigantic, and
promised an early and abundant harvest.
Phoebe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had
planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly.
Not surely her cousin Hepzibah's, who had no taste nor spirits
for the lady-like employment of cultivating flowers, and--with
her recluse habits, and tendency to shelter herself within the
dismal shadow of the house--would hardly have come forth under
the speck of open sky to weed and hoe among the fraternity of
House of Seven Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: I told them without concealment, expressing, however, with more force
and volume those which regarded Prestongrange himself.
"You do me no more than justice," said he. "I have fought as hard in
your interest as you have fought against mine. And how came you here
to-day?" he asked. "As the case drew out, I began to grow uneasy that
I had clipped the period so fine, and I was even expecting you to-
morrow. But to-day - I never dreamed of it."
I was not of course, going to betray Andie.
"I suspect there is some very weary cattle by the road," said I
"If I had known you were such a mosstrooper you should have tasted
longer of the Bass," says he.
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