| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: that. His devotion was worth having."
"You seem to know a lot about him,'" said Lingard, enviously.
"Why do you smile?" She continued to smile at him for a little
while. The long brass tube over her shoulder shone like gold
against the pale fairness of her bare head.--"At a thought," she
answered, preserving the low tone of the conversation into which
they had fallen as if their words could have disturbed the
self-absorption of Captain H. C. Jorgenson. "At the thought that
for all my long acquaintance with Mr. d'Alcacer I don't know half
as much about him as I know about you."
"Ah, that's impossible," contradicted Lingard. "Spaniard or no
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: fee from a wealthy firm of Chinese steamship
owners, in view of such services. Besides, he was
always ready to relieve any man who wished to
take a spell ashore for a time. No owner was ever
known to object to an arrangement of that sort.
For it seemed to be the established opinion at the
port that Captain Giles was as good as the best, if
not a little better. But in Hamilton's view he was
an "outsider." I believe that for Hamilton the
generalisation "outsider" covered the whole lot of
us; though I suppose that he made some dis-
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: toward a pedestal in his regard that had been occu-
pied by few and never for long.
Rezanov, in his splendid uniform and blazing
orders, filled the sala with his presence as he walked
past the rows of bright critical eyes toward his
hostesses. The young lips of the maids parted with
delight and the men frowned. For the first time
William Sturgis felt the sickness of jealousy instead
of its not unagreeable pain. Davidov and Khostov,
both handsome and well-bred young men, were also
in full naval uniform, and by no means ignored;
Rezanov |
