| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: at all."
"Ah, if I were a young lady," said the artful Grammer, "and could
save a poor old woman's skellington from a heathen doctor instead
of a Christian grave, I would do it, and be glad to. But nobody
will do anything for a poor old familiar friend but push her out
of the way."
You are very ungrateful, Grammer, to say that. But you are ill, I
know, and that's why you speak so. Now believe me, you are not
going to die yet. Remember you told me yourself that you meant to
keep him waiting many a year."
"Ay, one can joke when one is well, even in old age; but in
The Woodlanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could not realise
that he was actually crossing India in a railway train.
The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English
coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove,
and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around
groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque
bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvellous
temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.
Then they came upon vast tracts extending to the horizon, with jungles
inhabited by snakes and tigers, which fled at the noise of the train;
succeeded by forests penetrated by the railway, and still haunted
Around the World in 80 Days |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: of that turtle-fin, then. Will, serve his lordship; pass the
cassava-bread up, Jack! Senor commandant! a glass of wine? You
need it after your valiant toils. To the health of all brave
soldiers--and a toast from your own Spanish proverb, 'To-day to me,
tomorrow to thee!'"
"I drink it, brave senor. Your courtesy shows you the worthy
countryman of General Drake, and his brave lieutenant."
"Drake! Did you know him, senor?" asked all the Englishmen at
once.
"Too well, too well--" and he would have continued; but the bishop
burst out--
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