| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "Where were you during that hour?"
"Lying down," promptly. "Then, afraid I would drop off to sleep
again, I went downstairs."
Coroner Penfield consulted his notes before asking another question.
"Who lives in your house beside you and your twin sister?" he asked.
"My father, Colonel McIntyre; our house guest, Mrs. Louis C.
Brewster, and five servants," she replied. "Grimes, the butler;
Martha, our maid; Jane, the chambermaid; Hope, our cook; and Thomas,
our second man; the chauffeur, Harris, the scullery maid, and the
laundress do not stay at night."
"Who were at home beside yourself on Monday night and early Tuesday
The Red Seal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: to let it go out just yet," said Eustacia, in a way
which told at once that she was absolute queen here.
"Grandfather, you go in to bed. I shall follow you soon.
You like the fire, don't you, Johnny?"
The boy looked up doubtfully at her and murmured,
"I don't think I want it any longer."
Her grandfather had turned back again, and did not hear
the boy's reply. As soon as the white-haired man
had vanished she said in a tone of pique to the child,
"Ungrateful little boy, how can you contradict me?
Never shall you have a bonfire again unless you keep it
Return of the Native |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: whither you are going?"
"Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock
to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure.
The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some
time afterwards.
The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again;
it was the mayor once more.
He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air.
"Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate
the value of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--
the one bearing the other?"
Les Miserables |
