| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: romance. Instead of which, with Dad's failure, I fell right into
romance."
"How long ago was that?" Sheldon asked.
"Last year--the year of the panic."
"Let me see," Sheldon pondered with an air of gravity. "Sixteen
plus five, plus one, equals twenty-two. You were born in 1887?"
"Yes; but it is not nice of you."
"I am really sorry," he said, "but the problem was so obvious."
"Can't you ever say nice things? Or is it the way you English
have?" There was a snap in her gray eyes, and her lips quivered
suspiciously for a moment. "I should recommend, Mr. Sheldon, that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: which thou wearest on thy finger, thou holdest it, doubtless, as
of inestimable value?"
"Balsora and Bagdad cannot show the like," replied the Saracen;
"but what avails it to our purpose?"
"Much," replied the Frank," as thou shalt thyself confess. Take
my war-axe and dash the stone into twenty shivers: would each
fragment be as valuable as the original gem, or would they, all
collected, bear the tenth part of its estimation?"
"That is a child's question," answered the Saracen; "the
fragments of such a stone would not equal the entire jewel in the
degree of hundreds to one."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Sometimes, in very sharp weather, I have an oil-stove in.
Usually the gas warms it enough. You don't find it too
cold--do you?--with your coat on? Or would you rather
come upstairs?"
"Never mind the cold," he replied, throwing a leg
over the stool before the desk. "I can't stay more
'n a minute or two. What do you think we've done today?"
Louisa had never in her life seen her brother look
so well as he did now, sprawling triumphantly upon
the stool under the yellow gas-light. His strong,
heavily-featured face had somehow ceased to be commonplace.
The Market-Place |
