| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: still the question.
Or he would ask her at night, when he accompanied her
on some mission invented by Mrs Crick to give him the
opportunity. This was mostly a journey to the
farmhouse on the slopes above the vale, to inquire how
the advanced cows were getting on in the straw-barton
to which they were relegated. For it was a time of the
year that brought great changes to the world of kine.
Batches of the animals were sent away daily to this
lying-in hospital, where they lived on straw till their
calves were born, after which event, and as soon as the
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: "That's just it!" said Mistigris, "when one's young, one's loved;
plenty of love, plenty of women; but they do say: 'Where there's wife,
there's mope.'"
"What does Madame Schinner say to all this?" pursued the count; "for I
believe you married, out of love, the beautiful Adelaide de Rouville,
the protegee of old Admiral de Kergarouet; who, by the bye, obtained
for you the order for the Louvre ceilings through his nephew, the
Comte de Fontaine."
"A great painter is never married when he travels," said Mistigris.
"So that's the morality of studios, is it?" cried the count, with an
air of great simplicity.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: mind telling me where the back of my head has gone? I can't help
thinking it isn't there."
She made a quick examination. "It's pretty badly bumped," she said.
"You must have fallen on it."
I had got up on my uninjured elbow by that time, but the pain threw
me back. "Don't look at the wreck," I entreated her. "It's no
sight for a woman. If - if there is any way to tie up this arm, I
might be able to do something. There may be people under those cars!"
"Then it is too late to help," she replied solemnly. A little shower
of feathers, each carrying its fiery lamp, blew over us from some
burning pillow. A part the wreck collapsed with a crash. In a
The Man in Lower Ten |
