| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: the legislature would adjourn. For every hour was carrying him
farther from the scene of action.
His only hope was that the _Nancy Hanks_ might put in at the
Hawaiian Islands, from which place he might get a chance to write,
or, better still, to cable the reason of his absence. Captain
Green himself wiped out this expectation. He jocosely intimated to
Farnum one afternoon that he had no intention of calling the
Islands.
"When we get through this six months' cruise you'll be a first-
rate sailorman, son, and you'll get a sailorman's wages," he added
genially.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: closed room, and only in the very doorway of the bungalow allowed
himself to give vent to his feelings by a deprecatory and pained -
"Tse! Tse! Tse!"
CHAPTER XII
The Moorsoms did manage to catch the homeward mail boat all right,
but had only twenty-four hours in town. Thus the sentimental
Willie could not see very much of them. This did not prevent him
afterwards from relating at great length, with manly tears in his
eyes, how poor Miss Moorsom - the fashionable and clever beauty -
found her betrothed in Malata only to see him die in her arms.
Most people were deeply touched by the sad story. It was the talk
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: Would you have us go about looking as if we were no kin to one
another--us that have got no mother and not another sister in the
world? I'd do what was right, if I dressed in a gown dyed with
cheese-colouring; and I'd rather you'd choose, and let me wear what
pleases you."
"There you go again! You'd come round to the same thing if one
talked to you from Saturday night till Saturday morning. It'll be
fine fun to see how you'll master your husband and never raise your
voice above the singing o' the kettle all the while. I like to see
the men mastered!"
"Don't talk _so_, Priscy," said Nancy, blushing. "You know I
Silas Marner |
