| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: A sudden quiet fell upon his departure.
"Hands up!"
Jim Williams's voice! It was strange to see Herky and Bud flash up their
arms without turning. But I wheeled quickly. Bill, too, had his hands high
in the air.
In the sunlight of the doorway stood Jim Williams. Low down, carelessly, it
seemed, he held two long revolvers. He looked the same easy, slow Texan I
remembered. But the smile was not now in his eyes, and his lips were set in
a thin, hard line.
XVI. THE FOREST'S GREATEST FOE
Jim Williams sent out a sharp call. From the canyon-slope came answering
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: without looking to the right or left, I walked straight up the
lane between two sets of benches and desks, and took possession
of the empty chair and isolated desk raised on an estrade, of one
step high, so as to command one division; the other division
being under the surveillance of a maitresse similarly elevated.
At the back of the estrade, and attached to a moveable partition
dividing this schoolroom from another beyond, was a large tableau
of wood painted black and varnished; a thick crayon of white
chalk lay on my desk for the convenience of elucidating any
grammatical or verbal obscurity which might occur in my lessons
by writing it upon the tableau; a wet sponge appeared beside the
The Professor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: had carried it much further than such things often went,
and the planning of the coup had been beyond doubt Napoleonic.
Had this small sandy Scot planned it, or was he merely
the weapon in Thorpe's hand? Both views had their supporters
on the Exchange, but after the wrench of August 1st,
when with an abrupt eighty-shilling rise the price of Rubber
Consols stood at 15 pounds, and it was to be computed that
Semple had received on that single day nearly 75,000 pounds
in differences and "backwardation," a story was set afloat
which gave Thorpe the undivided credit of the invention.
It was related as coming from his own lips that he
The Market-Place |
