| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: womenkind with a certain significant reserve, in which
trained womankind read the suggestion that the "Rubber King"
drank a good deal, and was probably not wholly nice in
his cups.
This, however, could not be said to render him less
interesting in any eyes. There was indeed about it
the implication of a generous nature, or at the least
of a blind side--and it is not unpleasant to discover
these attributes in a new man who has made his half-million,
and has, or may have, countless favours to bestow.
It was as if his tongue instead of his eyes had uttered
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "Do you love him, Emilia?" asked Hope, gravely.
"Not much," said Emilia, honestly. "But perhaps I shall, by
and by."
"Emilia," cried Hope, "there is no such thing as happiness in a
marriage without love."
"Mine is not without love," the girl answered. "He loves me.
It frightens me to see how much he loves me. I can have the
devotion of a lifetime, if I will. Perhaps it is hard to
receive it in such a way, but I can have it. Do you blame me
very much?"
Hope hesitated. "I cannot blame you so much, my child," she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: poor child Proserpina pass by the mouth of your cavern?"
"No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt
every word or two; "no, Mother Ceres, I have seen nothing of
your daughter. But my ears, you must know, are made in such a
way, that all cries of distress and affright all over the world
are pretty sure to find their way to them; and nine days ago,
as I sat in my cave, making myself very miserable, I heard the
voice of a young girl, shrieking as if in great distress.
Something terrible has happened to the child, you may rest
assured. As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other
cruel monster, was carrying her away."
Tanglewood Tales |
