| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: at her. She settled on the plainest of them, - a pink short young man
with a dish face and no figure, at whose admiration she could afford to
smile; but for all that, the consciousness of his gaze (which was really
fixed on Torrance and his mittens) kept her in something of a flutter
till the word Amen. Even then, she was far too well-bred to gratify her
curiosity with any impatience. She resumed her seat languidly - this was
a Glasgow touch - she composed her dress, rearranged her nosegay of
primroses, looked first in front, then behind upon the other side, and
at last allowed her eyes to move, without hurry, in the direction of
the Hermiston pew. For a moment, they were riveted. Next she had
plucked her gaze home again like a tame bird who should have meditated
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: woman that had him was easy, so that I needed not to trouble
myself about him till I might be better able to do it effectually.
I told her that I had not much money left, but that I had some
things that were money's worth, if she could tell me how I
might turn them into money. She asked me what it was I had.
I pulled out the string of gold beads, and told her it was one
of my husband's presents to me; then I showed her the two
parcels of silk, which I told her I had from Ireland, and brought
up to town with me; and the little diamond ring. As to the
small parcel of plate and spoons, I had found means to dispose
of them myself before; and as for the childbed-linen I had, she
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: During the silence Mrs. Travers with a quick sideglance noticed
d'Alcacer as one sees a man in a mist, his mere dark shape
arrested close to the muslin screen. She had no doubt that he was
looking in their direction and that he could see them much more
plainly than she could see him. Mrs. Travers thought suddenly how
anxious he must be; and she remembered that he had begged her for
some sign, for some warning, beforehand, at the moment of crisis.
She had understood very well his hinted request for time to get
prepared. If he was to get more than a few minutes, THIS was the
moment to make him a sign--the sign he had suggested himself.
Mrs. Travers moved back the least bit so as to let the light fall
The Rescue |
