| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: "I never SHALL know my way about this house!" she exclaimed. "I'm on
my way to the library, and I don't want to interrupt. You and
Katharine were having a little chat?"
The presence of her sister-in-law made Lady Otway slightly uneasy. How
could she go on with what she was saying in Maggie's presence? for she
was saying something that she had never said, all these years, to
Maggie herself.
"I was telling Katharine a few little commonplaces about marriage,"
she said, with a little laugh. "Are none of my children looking after
you, Maggie?"
"Marriage," said Mrs. Hilbery, coming into the room, and nodding her
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: Beaumont began to laugh again. "You would not find her so handsome as
her brother," he said; and it was after this that he attempted to dissuade
the heir of the Duke of Bayswater from accepting Mrs. Westgate's invitation.
"Depend upon it," he said, "that girl means to try for you."
"It seems to me you are doing your best to make a fool of me,"
the modest young nobleman answered.
"She has been asking me," said Beaumont, "all about your people
and your possessions."
"I am sure it is very good of her!" Lord Lambeth rejoined.
"Well, then," observed his companion, "if you go, you go
with your eyes open."
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: to talk over the freight on copra, I don't care to have proposals
of marriage sandwiched in. Besides--besides--"
Her voice broke for the moment, and when she went on there was a
note of appeal in it that well-nigh convicted him to himself of
being a brute.
"Don't you see?--it spoils everything; it makes the whole situation
impossible . . . and . . . and I so loved our partnership, and was
proud of it. Don't you see?--I can't go on being your partner if
you make love to me. And I was so happy."
Tears of disappointment were in her eyes, and she caught a swift
sob in her throat.
|
