| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: in the world, and that I was using her infamously.
But every thing was then just settled between Miss Grey
and me. To retreat was impossible. All that I had to do,
was to avoid you both. I sent no answer to Marianne,
intending by that to preserve myself from her farther notice;
and for some time I was even determined not to call in
Berkeley Street;--but at last, judging it wiser to affect
the air of a cool, common acquaintance than anything else,
I watched you all safely out of the house one morning,
and left my name."
"Watched us out of the house!"
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: tars, he knew that he could arrive at Irkutsk, before them.
The day after the two carriages had left Ekaterenburg they
reached the small town of Toulouguisk at seven o'clock in
the morning, having covered two hundred and twenty versts,
no event worthy of mention having occurred. The same
evening, the 22d of July, they arrived at Tioumen.
Tioumen, whose population is usually ten thousand in-
habitants, then contained double that number. This, the
first industrial town established by the Russians in Siberia,
in which may be seen a fine metal-refining factory and a bell
foundry, had never before presented such an animated ap-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: How can these contrarieties agree?
TALBOT.
That will I show you presently.
[Winds his horn. Drums strike up: a peal of ordnance. Enter
Soldiers.]
How say you, madam? are you now persuaded
That Talbot is but shadow of himself?
These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,
With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,
Razeth your cities and subverts your towns,
And in a moment makes them desolate.
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