| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: king ---- "
"You perceive that I do know it; is not that sufficient?
Well, go on, monsieur, the money the king has required you
to supply ---- "
"You understand, marquise, that I have been obliged to
procure it, then to get it counted, afterwards registered --
altogether a long affair. Since Monsieur de Mazarin's death,
financial affairs occasion some little fatigue and
embarrassment. My administration is somewhat overtaxed, and
this is the reason why I have not slept during the past
night."
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: how much I despise you."
"Thank you," he retorted, ironically.
"I don't understand at all. I don't see how you can be the man
they say you are. Before I met you it was easy to understand. But
somehow--I don't know--you don't LOOK like a villain." She found
herself strangely voicing the deep hope of her heart. It was
surely impossible to look at him and believe him guilty of the
things of which, he was accused. And yet he offered no denial,
suggested no defense.
Her troubled eyes went over his thin, sunbaked face with its
touch, of bitterness, and she did not find it possible to dismiss
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: we to account for that rare polish in his style of writing,
which, most critically examined, seems the result of careful
early culture among the best classics of our language; it equals
if it does not surpass the style of Hugh Miller, which was the
wonder of the British literary public, until he unraveled the
mystery in the most interesting of autobiographies. But
Frederick Douglass was still calking the seams of Baltimore
clippers, and had only written a "pass," at the age when Miller's
style was already formed.
I asked William Whipper, of Pennsylvania, the gentleman alluded
to above, whether he thought Mr. Douglass's power inherited from
My Bondage and My Freedom |
