| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: I'll have to paper your friend from the Lowlands. Ye see that,
Alan -- say that ye see that!"
I thought Alan flushed a bit. "This is unco hard on me that
brought him here, James," said he, throwing his head back. "It's
like making me a traitor!"
"Now, Alan, man!" cried James. "Look things in the face! He'll
be papered anyway; Mungo Campbell'll be sure to paper him; what
matters if I paper him too? And then, Alan, I am a man that has
a family." And then, after a little pause on both sides, "And,
Alan, it'll be a jury of Campbells," said he.
"There's one thing," said Alan, musingly, "that naebody kens his
Kidnapped |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: observed to Christopher Newman that it was high time he should
take a wife.
"Listen to her; she has the audacity!" said Tristram, who on Sunday
evenings was always rather acrimonious.
"I don't suppose you have made up your mind not to marry?"
Mrs. Tristram continued.
"Heaven forbid!" cried Newman. "I am sternly resolved on it."
"It's very easy," said Tristram; "fatally easy!"
"Well, then, I suppose you do not mean to wait till you are fifty."
"On the contrary, I am in a great hurry."
"One would never suppose it. Do you expect a lady to come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: going to be raised? We have been promised this, and our fathers too,
before;-this is naught but old folks' tales!'
Say, 'Whose is the earth and those who are therein, if ye but know?'
They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Do ye not then mind?'
Say, 'Who is Lord of the seven heavens, and Lord of the mighty
throne?'
They will say, 'God.' Say, 'Do ye not then fear?'
Say, 'In whose hand is the dominion of everything; He succours but
is not succoured,-if ye did but know?'
They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Then how can ye be so infatuated?'
Nay, we have brought them the truth, but, verily, they are liars!
The Koran |
