| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace
in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners,
and increased her anxiety to know more of him.
From the Thorpes she could learn nothing, for they had been
only two days in Bath before they met with Mrs. Allen.
It was a subject, however, in which she often indulged
with her fair friend, from whom she received every possible
encouragement to continue to think of him; and his impression
on her fancy was not suffered therefore to weaken.
Isabella was very sure that he must be a charming young man,
and was equally sure that he must have been delighted with
Northanger Abbey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: as they talked together--a mother, early widowed, who had kept
her little flock of children together and labored through hard
and heavy
years to bring them up in purity and knowledge--a Sister of
Charity
who had devoted herself to the nursing of poor folk who were
being
eaten to death by cancer--a schoolmaster whose heart and life
had been poured into his quiet work of training boys for a clean
and
thoughtful manhood--a medical missionary who had given up
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: him smile.--"Not like this one," he said. "You made me notice how
quiet and still it was. Yes. Listen how still it is."
Both moved their heads slightly and seemed to lend an ear. There
was not a murmur, sigh, rustle, splash, or footfall. No whispers,
no tremors, not a sound of any kind. They might have been alone
on board the Emma, abandoned even by the ghost of Captain
Jorgenson departed to rejoin the Barque Wild Rose on the shore of
the Cimmerian sea.--"It's like the stillness of the end," said
Mrs. Travers in a low, equable voice.--"Yes, but that, too, is
false," said Lingard in the same tone.--"I don't understand,"
Mrs. Travers began, hurriedly, after a short silence. "But don't
The Rescue |
