| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: interfere. Miss Vernon was mistaken in applying to me. In short, Catherine,
everything has gone wrong, but it is now all happily settled. Lady Susan, I
believe, wishes to speak to you about it, if you are at leisure."
"Certainly," I replied, deeply sighing at the recital of so lame a story. I
made no comments, however, for words would have been vain.
Reginald was glad to get away, and I went to Lady Susan, curious,
indeed, to hear her account of it. "Did I not tell you," said she with a
smile, "that your brother would not leave us after all?" "You did, indeed,"
replied I very gravely; "but I flattered myself you would be mistaken." "I
should not have hazarded such an opinion," returned she, "if it had not at
that moment occurred to me that his resolution of going might be
Lady Susan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: by a momentous resolve and said:
"No. I can't let you out of my sight. I have seen you. You have
told me your story. You are honest. You have never told me you
loved me."
She waited, saying to herself that he had never given her time, that
he had never asked her! And that, in truth, she did not know!
I am inclined to believe that she did not. As abundance of
experience is not precisely her lot in life, a woman is seldom an
expert in matters of sentiment. It is the man who can and generally
does "see himself" pretty well inside and out. Women's self-
possession is an outward thing; inwardly they flutter, perhaps
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Grew wild and fresh her chosen joys,
Yet Nature's feelings deeply lay
In that endowed and youthful frame;
Shrined in her heart and hid from day,
They burned unseen with silent flame.
In youth's first search for mental light,
She lived but to reflect and learn,
But soon her mind's maturer might
For stronger task did pant and yearn;
And stronger task did fate assign,
Task that a giant's strength might strain;
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