| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: part of the medicine, he swallowed it before them. The Countess
now bought what remained, a step to which Janet, by further
objections, only determined her the more obstinately. She even
took the first dose upon the instant, and professed to feel her
heart lightened and her spirits augmented--a consequence which,
in all probability, existed only in her own imagination. The
lady then piled the purchases she had made together, flung her
purse to Janet, and desired her to compute the amount, and to pay
the pedlar; while she herself, as if tired of the amusement she
at first found in conversing with him, wished him good evening,
and walked carelessly into the house, thus depriving Wayland of
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: wife's first name.
"You mean suppose YOU get it," she says. I
like to of seen the look she must of give him to
fit in with the way she says that YOU. He didn't
say nothing, the man didn't; and then her voice
softens down some, and she says, low and slow:
"Henry, wouldn't you love me if I DID get it?
Suppose it marked and pitted me all up?"
"Oh, of course," he says, "of course I would.
Nothing can change the way I feel. YOU know
that." He said it quick enough, all right, jest the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: of drinks about you -- er -- what's your name"
"Dawson," said Vallance. "No; I'm sorry to say
that I'm all in, financially."
"I've been living for a week in a coal cellar on
Division Street," went on Ide, "with a crook they
called 'Blinky' Morris. I didn't have anywhere else
to go. While I was out to-day a chap with some pa-
pers in his pocket was there, asking for me. I didn't
know but what he was a fly cop, so I didn't go around
again till after dark. There was a letter there be
had left for me. Say -- Dawson, it was from a big
The Voice of the City |
