| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: However, he controlled himself nobly, being anxious to hear the
end of this mysterious fib.
"How long was the time that the lord Oro set apart for sleep?"
I asked.
She paused as though puzzled to find words to express her
meaning, then held up her hands and said:
"Ten," nodding at her fingers. By second thoughts she took
Bickley's hands, not mine, and counted his ten fingers.
"Ten years," said Bickley. "Well, of course, it is impossible,
but perhaps--" and he paused.
"Ten tens," she went on with a deepening smile, "one hundred."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: the little children sleeping in their beds beyond the sea--what
then? Why, then, in the evening hour, one might have thoughts of
home that would go across the ocean by way of heaven, and be better
than dreams, almost as good as prayers.
AT THE SIGN OF THE BALSAM BOUGH
"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, or hills, or field,
Or woods and steepy mountains yield.
"There we will rest our sleepy heads,
And happy hearts, on balsam beds;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: into an ordinary car, and the travellers could observe the picturesque
beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming.
The railway track wound in and out among the passes, now approaching
the mountain-sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding abrupt angles
by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles, which seemed to have
no outlet. The locomotive, its great funnel emitting a weird light,
with its sharp bell, and its cow-catcher extended like a spur,
mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades,
and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines.
There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route. The railway
turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate
Around the World in 80 Days |
