| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: a chicken.
This game suggested to our little friend another which proved to
be the sequel to the one just described, and she called out:
"The flower-seller."
The girl who had just been dismissed appeared from behind the
corner of the house with all the stolen "flowers," each holding
to the other's skirts. At the same time she was calling out:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: work, but sailing the ship of course was done. The men
washed their clothes and their faces for the first time in
a fortnight, and had a special dinner given them. They
spoke of spontaneous combustion with contempt, and
implied THEY were the boys to put out combustions. Some-
how we all felt as though we each had inherited a large
fortune. But a beastly smell of burning hung about the
ship. Captain Beard had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks.
I had never noticed so much before how twisted and
bowed he was. He and Mahon prowled soberly about
hatches and ventilators, sniffing. It struck me suddenly
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: now something of deference mingled with a good deal of fear; for
the least servitor of the favourite Earl, especially such a man
as Lambourne, was, for very sufficient reasons, an object both of
the one and of the other.
In the meanwhile, the old man, seeing his guide in this
uncontrollable humour, ceased to remonstrate with him, and
sitting down in the most obscure corner of the room, called for a
small measure of sack, over which he seemed, as it were, to
slumber, withdrawing himself as much as possible from general
observation, and doing nothing which could recall his existence
to the recollection of his fellow-traveller, who by this time had
Kenilworth |
