| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room.
Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting
beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy,
soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ.
"You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he.
"You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have
recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into
any little problem which you may submit to me."
The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting
against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his
brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: the hundred again and again and again, while the slowly ascending
sun brought the glory of colour to the world, turning the islets
green, the sea blue, the brig below her white - dazzlingly white in
the spread of her wings - with the red ensign streaming like a tiny
flame from the peak.
And each time she murmured with a rising inflexion:
"Take this - and this - and this - " till suddenly her arms fell.
She had seen the ensign dipped in response, and next moment the
point below hid the hull of the brig from her view. Then she
turned away from the balustrade, and, passing slowly before the
door of her father's room with her eyelids lowered, and an
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "Oh, God! Oh, God!" she cried.
Her prayer was answered. In a momentary lull in the battle was heard the
deadly hiss of a bullet as it sped through one of the portholes. It ended with
a slight sickening spat as the lead struck the flesh. Then Alice, without a
cry, fell on the husband's breast. Silas Zane found her lying dead with the
body of her husband clasped closely in her arms. He threw a blanket over them
and went on his wearying round of the bastions.
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The besiegers had been greatly harassed and hampered by the continual fire
from Col. Zane's house. It was exceedingly difficult for the Indians, and
impossible for the British, to approach near enough to the Colonel's house to
Betty Zane |
