| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: wanted it, but ask of yourseln."
'"Mr. Hareton wishes you would read to us, ma'am," I said,
immediately. "He'd take it very kind - he'd be much obliged."
'She frowned; and looking up, answered -
'"Mr. Hareton, and the whole set of you, will be good enough to
understand that I reject any pretence at kindness you have the
hypocrisy to offer! I despise you, and will have nothing to say to
any of you! When I would have given my life for one kind word,
even to see one of your faces, you all kept off. But I won't
complain to you! I'm driven down here by the cold; not either to
amuse you or enjoy your society."
Wuthering Heights |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: no more than ordinary either. You help me to pass for a man like
another. So if I AM, as I understand you, you're not compromised.
Is that it?"
She had another of her waits, but she spoke clearly enough.
"That's it. It's all that concerns me--to help you to pass for a
man like another."
He was careful to acknowledge the remark handsomely. "How kind,
how beautiful, you are to me! How shall I ever repay you?"
She had her last grave pause, as if there might be a choice of
ways. But she chose. "By going on as you are."
It was into this going on as he was that they relapsed, and really
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: shrink before his fury; behold, their knees tremble because they
know that he has this power. He mocks them, does the Lord Oro. He
asks for their submission here and now, and that in the name of
the Nations they should take the great oath which may not be
broken, swearing to cease from war upon the Sons of Wisdom and to
obey them in all things to the ends of the earth. Some of the
ambassadors would yield. They look about them like wild things
that are trapped. But madness takes the Prince. He cries that the
oath of an ape is of no account, but that he will tear up the
Children of Wisdom as an ape tears leaves, and afterwards take
the divine Lady to be his wife.
When the World Shook |
