| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: perhaps to some place where men were kinder and less urgent. Dick
did not judge her. He saw her, as her kind had been through all
time, storm centers of the social world, passively and unconsciously
blighting, at once the hunters and the prey.
He secured her former address from the police, a three-story brick
rooming-house in the local tenderloin, and waited rather
uncomfortably for the mistress of the place to see him. She came
at last, a big woman, vast and shapeless and with an amiable loose
smile, and she came in with the light step of the overfleshed, only
to pause in the doorway and to stare at him.
"My God !" she said. "I thought you were dead!"
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: thaws come in the spring, these piles are broken down and set afloat
in the river."
"I see," said Newmark. "Well, but why shouldn't we undertake that
part of it? I should think that would he more the job of the river-
drivers."
"It would hold back our drive too much to have to stop and break
rollways," explained Orde.
The next morning they took the early train for Monrovia, where were
situated the big mills and the offices of the nine other lumber
companies. Within an hour they had descended at the small frame
terminal station, and were walking together up the village street.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: most incongruously grotesque of noises by way of calls or
ordinary conversation.
The lack of curiosity, or the lack of gallantry, of the impalla
bucks was, in my experience, quite characteristic. They were
almost always the farthest in the background and the first away
when danger threatened. The ladies could look out for themselves.
They had no horns to save; and what do the fool women mean by
showing so little sense, anyway! They deserve what they get! It
used to amuse me a lot to observe the utter abandonment of all
responsibility by these handsome gentlemen. When it came time to
depart, they departed. Hang the girls! They trailed along after
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