| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "Well, that's as it should be," continued Mac. "And why
shouldn't we say the Lord's Prayer? There can't be no hurt in
ut."
He had the same quiet, pleading, childlike way with him as in
the morning; and the others accepted his proposal, and knelt
down without a word.
"Knale if ye like!" said he. "I'll stand." And he covered his
eyes.
So the prayer was said to the accompaniment of the surf and
seabirds, and all rose refreshed and felt lightened of a load. Up
to then, they had cherished their guilty memories in private, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: assassin and the last shriek of his victim; to listen to appalling
noises and fearful silence, the silence of a father devouring his dead
sons; to wonder at the laughter of the damned; to look for some human
form among the livid heaps wrung and trampled by crime; to learn words
such as living men may not hear without dying; to call perpetually on
the dead, and always to accuse and condemn!--Is that living?"
"Cease!" cried Godefroid; "I cannot see you or hear you any further!
My reason wanders, my eyes are dim. You light a fire within me which
consumes me."
"And yet I must go on!" said the senior, waving his hand with a
strange gesture that worked on the youth like a spell.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: begged Madame Latournelle to go and stay at the Chalet during his
absence.
"You will find the colonel in Paris," said the notary. "In the
shipping news quoted this morning in the Journal of Commerce, I found
under the head of Marseilles--here, see for yourself," he said,
offering the paper. "'The Bettina Mignon, Captain Mignon, arrived
October 6'; it is now the 17th, and the colonel is sure to be in
Paris."
Dumay requested Gobenheim to do without him in future, and then went
back to the Chalet, which he reached just as Modeste was sealing her
two letters, to her father and Canalis. Except for the address the
Modeste Mignon |
