| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: boy had not gone until the time came for him to join his outfit at the
corrals. And I was surprised that Lin, the usually good-hearted, should
find nothing but mirth in the idea of this unknown, unthanked young
sentinel. "Sleeping's a heap better for them kind till they get their
growth," was his single observation.
But when Separ had dwindled to toys behind us in the journeying stage I
told Miss Jessamine, and although she laughed too, it was with a note
that young Texas would have liked to hear; and she hoped she might see
him upon her return, to thank him.
"Any Jack can walk around all night," said Mr. McLean, disparagingly.
"Well, then, and I know a Jack who didn't," observed the young lady.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: She leaned her elbows on the table and drew my book toward her.
I caught a faint odour of violet sachet. `So that's Latin, is it?
It looks hard. You do go to the theatre sometimes, though,
for I've seen you there. Don't you just love a good play, Jim?
I can't stay at home in the evening if there's one in town.
I'd be willing to work like a slave, it seems to me, to live
in a place where there are theatres.'
`Let's go to a show together sometime. You are going to let
me come to see you, aren't you?'
`Would you like to? I'd be ever so pleased. I'm never busy
after six o'clock, and I let my sewing girls go at half-past five.
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: hearth and talked to himself about
that wonderful coat.
"I shall make my fortune--to be
cut bias--the Mayor of Gloucester is
to be married on Christmas Day in the
morning, and he hath ordered a coat
and an embroidered waistcoat--"
Then the tailor started; for
suddenly, interrupting him, from the
dresser at the other side of the kitchen
came a number of little noises--
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