| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill
him!"
"What is that?" asked the countess as if she did not know what the
visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of
Count Bezukhov's distress some fifteen times.
"That's what comes of a modern education," exclaimed the visitor.
"It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do as
he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible
things that he has been expelled by the police."
"You don't say so!" replied the countess.
"He chose his friends badly," interposed Anna Mikhaylovna. "Prince
War and Peace |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: wholly content me, not even when I learned that her mourning had a
double cause--learned that poor Mr. Anvoy, giving way altogether,
buried under the ruins of his fortune and leaving next to nothing,
had died a few weeks before.
"So she has come out to marry George Gravener?" I commented.
"Wouldn't it have been prettier of him to have saved her the
trouble?"
"Hasn't the House just met?" Adelaide replied. "And for Mr.
Gravener the House--!" Then she added: "I gather that her having
come is exactly a sign that the marriage is a little shaky. If it
were quite all right a self-respecting girl like Ruth would have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: admit of his taking any precaution to acquire evidence of his
condition and circumstances--gave his consent to the marriage.
It was about to be celebrated in the principal church of the
city, when it was interrupted by a singular occurrence.
Captain Falconer having been detached to Rotterdam to bring up a
part of the brigade of Scottish auxiliaries, who were in quarters
there, a person of consideration in the town, to whom he had been
formerly known, proposed to him for amusement to go to the high
church to see a countryman of his own married to the daughter of
a wealthy burgomaster. Captain Falconer went accordingly,
accompanied by his Dutch acquaintance, with a party of his
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