| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: of tone and expression.
"Well, first about your work. I know I hurt your feelings when I wouldn't
listen. But I wasn't ready. I wanted to--to just be gay with you for a
while. Don't think I wasn't interested. I was. And now, I'm ready to hear
all about it--and everything."
She smiled at him bravely, and she knew that unless some unforeseen shock
upset her composure, she would be able to conceal from him anything which
might hurt his feelings.
"You do look serious," he said, with keen eyes on her.
"Just what are your business relations with Hutter?" she inquired.
"I'm simply working for him," replied Glenn. "My aim is to get an interest
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "You could have refused."
"But--I owe it to the Cause--I--I couldn't think of myself when
you were offering so much in gold. Stop laughing, everyone is
looking at us."
"They will look at us anyway. Don't try to palm off that twaddle
about the Cause to me. You wanted to dance and I gave you the
opportunity. This march is the last figure of the reel, isn't
it?"
"Yes--really, I must stop and sit down now."
"Why? Have I stepped on your feet?"
"No--but they'll talk about me."
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: should have liked best, so that I might be nursed and made much of by
the princess. I flung myself on the enemy, like mad; but I had no sort
of luck, and came out of the action quite safe and sound. We must
march, and there was an end of it; I never saw the countess again, and
there is the whole story."
By this time they had reached Benassis' house; the doctor mounted his
horse at once and disappeared. Genestas recommended his son to
Jacquotte's care, so the doctor on his return found that she had taken
Adrien completely under her wing, and had installed him in M.
Gravier's celebrated room. With no small astonishment, she heard her
master's order to put up a simple camp-bed in his own room, for that
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