| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "But I care. I won't have people talking about you," replied the Colonel, who
began to lose patience. Usually he had the best temper imaginable. "Last fall
you allowed Clarke to pay you a good deal of attention and apparently you were
on good terms when he went away. Now that he has returned you won't even speak
to him. You let this fellow Miller run after you. In my estimation Miller is
not to be compared to Clarke, and judging from the warm greetings I saw Clarke
receive this morning, there are a number of folk who agree with me. Not that I
am praising Clarke. I simply say this because to Bessie, to Jack, to everyone,
your act is incomprehensible. People are calling you a flirt and saying that
they would prefer some country manners."
"I have not allowed Mr. Miller to run after me, as you are pleased to term
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: became part of what is nowadays quite an important element in the
confusion of our world, that multitude of economically ascendant
people who are learning how to spend money. It is made up of
financial people, the owners of the businesses that are eating up
their competitors, inventors of new sources of wealth, such as
ourselves; it includes nearly all America as one sees it on the
European stage. It is a various multitude having only this in
common: they are all moving, and particularly their womankind are
moving, from conditions in which means were insistently finite,
things were few, and customs simple, towards a limitless
expenditure and the sphere of attraction of Bond Street, Fifth
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: commenced. As she had a great taste for the pleasures of London,
and of Brighthelmstone, she will I dare say find some difficulty
in prevailing on herself even to satisfy the curiosity I dare say
she feels of beholding you, at the expence of quitting those
favourite haunts of Dissipation, for the melancholy tho'
venerable gloom of the castle you inhabit. Perhaps however if she
finds her health impaired by too much amusement, she may acquire
fortitude sufficient to undertake a Journey to Scotland in the
hope of its Proving at least beneficial to her health, if not
conducive to her happiness. Your fears I am sorry to say,
concerning your father's extravagance, your own fortunes, your
Love and Friendship |
