| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: would have been a prodigious task, for it is considered a
good day's work to skin and stake the hides of fifteen or
sixteen animals.
November 26th. -- I set out on my return in a direct line
for Monte Video. Having heard of some giant's bones at
a neighbouring farm-house on the Sarandis, a small stream
entering the Rio Negro, I rode there accompanied by my
host, and purchased for the value of eighteen pence the head
of the Toxodon. [4] When found it was quite perfect; but
the boys knocked out some of the teeth with stones, and then
set up the head as a mark to throw at. By a most fortunate
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: stairs sitting-room and got out Eliza Klinefelter's lavender
slippers. Ah, well, the foster motherhood would soon have to be
put away in camphor again.
The next day, by degrees, I got the whole story.
Paul Armstrong had a besetting evil--the love of money. Common
enough, but he loved money, not for what it would buy, but for
its own sake. An examination of the books showed no
irregularities in the past year since John had been cashier, but
before that, in the time of Anderson, the old cashier, who had
died, much strange juggling had been done with the records. The
railroad in New Mexico had apparently drained the banker's
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: present wealth; but I added, that it might suffice to support us
until our fortune was bettered, either by the inheritance I have
just alluded to, or by the resources of the hazard-table.
VIII
This Passion hath its floods in the very times of weakness,
which are great prosperity, and great adversity; both which
times kindle Love, and make it more fervent.--BACON.
"For several weeks I thus continued to think only of enjoying
the full luxury of my situation; and being restrained, by a sense
of honour, as well as a lurking apprehension of the police, from
renewing my intimacy with my former companions at the hotel of
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