| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: his paws at the usurper of the rug with silent but strong objection.
Rosamond bringing Lydgate his cup of tea, he threw down the paper,
and said to Will, who had started up and gone to the table--
"It's no use your puffing Brooke as a reforming landlord, Ladislaw:
they only pick the more holes in his coat in the `Trumpet.'"
"No matter; those who read the `Pioneer' don't read the `Trumpet,'"
said Will, swallowing his tea and walking about. "Do you suppose the
public reads with a view to its own conversion? We should have a witches'
brewing with a vengeance then--`Mingle, mingle, mingle, mingle, You
that mingle may'--and nobody would know which side he was going to take."
"Farebrother says, he doesn't believe Brooke would get elected
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: expression, common among the peasants.
"A year ago he cut down two birch trees in the land-lord's
forest," the little pink boy hurried to say, "so he was locked
up; now he's sitting the sixth month there, and the wife goes
begging. There are three children and a sick grandmother," he
went on with his detailed account.
"And where does she live?" Nekhludoff asked.
"In this very house," answered the boy, pointing to a hut, in
front of which, on the footpath along which Nekhludoff was
walking, a tiny, flaxen-headed infant stood balancing himself
with difficulty on his rickety legs.
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: prevent my feeling so acutely this dreadful separation from you and all
whom I love.
Yours ever,
S. VERNON.
VIII
MRS. VERNON TO LADY DE COURCY
Churchhill.
My dear Mother,--You must not expect Reginald back again for some time.
He desires me to tell you that the present open weather induces him to
accept Mr. Vernon's invitation to prolong his stay in Sussex, that they may
have some hunting together. He means to send for his horses immediately,
Lady Susan |
