| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: France and England are full of untrained women who are eager to help."
It was that night that Sara Lee became engaged to Harvey.
Sara Lee's attitude toward Harvey was one that she never tried to analyze.
When he was not with her she thought of him tenderly, romantically. This
was perhaps due to the photograph of him on her mantel. There was a dash
about the picture rather lacking in the original, for it was a profile,
and in it the young man's longish hair, worn pompadour, the slight thrust
forward of the head, the arch of the nostrils,- gave him a sort of tense
eagerness, a look of running against the wind. From the photograph
Harvey might have been a gladiator; as a matter of fact he was a bond
salesman.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: or even the attentive daughter.
Poor Mr. Woodhouse little suspected what was plotting against him
in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming, and so
anxiously hoping might not have taken cold from his ride.--Could he
have seen the heart, he would have cared very little for the lungs;
but without the most distant imagination of the impending evil,
without the slightest perception of any thing extraordinary in
the looks or ways of either, he repeated to them very comfortably
all the articles of news he had received from Mr. Perry, and talked
on with much self-contentment, totally unsuspicious of what they
could have told him in return.
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: for thither the sun's light takes it. There, too, it can be
caught and thence in an instant returned to earth again, to be
reflected in the mirror of the present by those who know how that
mirror should be held. Ask me no more; one so wise as you, O
Bickley, can solve such problems for himself."
"If you don't mind, Lady Yva," said Bastin, "I think I should
like to get out of this place, interesting as it is. I have food
to cook up above and lots of things to attend to, especially as I
understand I am to come back here tomorrow. Would you mind
showing me the way to that lift or moving staircase?"
"Come," she said, smiling.
When the World Shook |
