| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: might have thought him weary of distant voyages;
and the longest he had ever made had lasted a fort-
night, of which the most part had been spent at
anchor, sheltering from the weather. As soon as
his wife had inherited a house and enough to live on
(from a bachelor uncle who had made some money
in the coal business) he threw up his command of
an East-coast collier with a feeling as though he
had escaped from the galleys. After all these years
he might have counted on the fingers of his two
hands all the days he had been out of sight of Eng-
To-morrow |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: said Duchess, waking up with a jump.
"I am truly glad to hear it! He has
brought you a pill, my dear Duchess!"
"I think I should feel QUITE well if he
only felt my pulse," said Duchess,
backing away from the magpie, who
sidled up with something in his beak.
"It is only a bread pill, you had
much better take it; drink a little milk,
my dear Duchess!"
"I am feeling very much better, my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: that, upon the right banks of the Obi, Michael Strogoff
would have much more to fear from man? It was probable.
However, should it become necessary, he would not hesi-
tate to abandon the beaten path to Irkutsk. To journey
then across the steppe he would, no doubt, run the risk
of finding himself without supplies. There would be, in
fact, no longer a well-marked road. Still, there must be
no hesitation.
Finally, towards half past three in the afternoon, Michael
Strogoff left the last depressions of the Baraba, and the
dry and hard soil of Siberia rang out once more beneath
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