| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: do so to the entire satisfaction of a majority of the old no-
bility, we have agreed to support him in a return to his
regency."
For a moment there was deep silence. Many of the nobles
stood with averted faces and eyes upon the ground.
The American, a half-smile upon his face, turned toward
the men of Peter who had come to denounce him. He knew
what their verdict would be. He knew that if he were to
save the throne for Leopold he must hold it at any cost until
Leopold should be found.
Troopers were scouring the country about Lustadt as far
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: to you? What's your business here?"
"Robbed!" said Silas, gaspingly. "I've been robbed! I want the
constable--and the Justice--and Squire Cass--and
Mr. Crackenthorp."
"Lay hold on him, Jem Rodney," said the landlord, the idea of a
ghost subsiding; "he's off his head, I doubt. He's wet through."
Jem Rodney was the outermost man, and sat conveniently near Marner's
standing-place; but he declined to give his services.
"Come and lay hold on him yourself, Mr. Snell, if you've a mind,"
said Jem, rather sullenly. "He's been robbed, and murdered too,
for what I know," he added, in a muttering tone.
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: that stood leaning slightly above the ship. The cat-
heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had
gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred
fathom of red-hot chain. The ship trembled, the mass of
flame swayed as if ready to collapse, and the fore top-
gallant-mast fell. It darted down like an arrow of fire,
shot under, and instantly leaping up within an oar's-
length of the boats, floated quietly, very black on the
luminous sea. I hailed the deck again. After some time
a man in an unexpectedly cheerful but also muffled tone,
as though he had been trying to speak with his mouth
Youth |
