| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: the professor and the divine met at dinner that evening, and sat
together on the sofa afterwards for an hour, and talked over the
state of female labour on the antarctic continent (for nobody talks
shop after his claret), and each vowed that the other was the best
company he ever met in his life. What an advantage it is to be men
of the world!
From all which you may guess that the professor was not the least
of little Ellie's opinion. So he gave her a succinct compendium of
his famous paper at the British Association, in a form suited for
the youthful mind. But, as we have gone over his arguments against
water-babies once already, which is once too often, we will not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: cool, ominous tone from the other.
"I'll say it twice," returned the first gamester, in hot haste.
"I'll say it three times. I'll whistle it. Are you deaf? You
light-fingered gent! You stacked the cards!"
Silence ensued, deeper than before, pregnant with meaning. For
all that Duane saw, not an outlaw moved for a full moment. Then
suddenly the room was full of disorder as men rose and ran and
dived everywhere.
"Run or duck!" yelled Euchre, close to Duane's ear. With that
he dashed for the door. Duane leaped after him. They ran into a
jostling mob. Heavy gun-shots and hoarse yells hurried the
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: thee."
"In God's name, what's the matter?" said the astonished
horseman, endeavouring to extricate his bridle from the grasp of
the old woman; "for Heaven's sake, let me go and see what's the
matter."
"Ohon! that I should have lived to see the day!--The steading's
a' in a low, and the bonny stack-yard lying in the red ashes, and
the gear a' driven away. But gang na forward ; it wad break your
young heart, hinny, to see what my auld een hae seen this
morning."
"And who has dared to do this? let go my bridle, Annaple--where
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