| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: at that all the poor salmon turn up dead. Then comes the water-
bailiff, and catches the poachers. Then comes the policeman, with
his sword at his side and his truncheon under his arm: and then
comes a "cheap journey" to Tralee Gaol, in which those foolish
poachers sit and reconsider themselves, and determine not to break
the salmon laws--at least till next time.
But why is it that this spurge, and St. Patrick's cabbage, grow
only here in the west? If they got here of themselves, where did
they come from? All outside there is sea; and they could not
float over that.
Come, I say, and sit down on this bench, and I will tell you a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: because I wouldn't give them everything--the very shirt
off my back--turned and put their knife into me.
I don't know them apart, hardly--they've all got names
like Rhine wines--but I know the gang as a whole, and if I
don't lift the roof clean off their particular synagogue,
then my name is mud."
Lord Plowden smiled. "I've always the greatest difficulty
to remember that you are an Englishman--a Londoner born,"
he declared pleasantly. "You don't talk in the least
like one. On shipboard I made sure you were an American--a
very characteristic one, I thought--of some curious
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: enquired as if to humour her.
"Why the particular person must never fail. We must manage it for
you somehow."
He threw back his head, laughing out; he was really exhilarated.
"Oh yes, somehow!"
"Well, I think we each do--don't we?--in one little way and another
and according to our limited lights. I'm pleased at any rate, for
myself, that you are; for I assure you I've done my best."
"You do better than any one!" He had struck a match for another
cigarette, and the flame lighted an instant his responsive finished
face, magnifying into a pleasant grimace the kindness with which he
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