| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: together, "were you not aware that Monsieur Albert Savaron de Savarus
is a Legitimist?"
"A Legitimist?"
"Until 1830 he was Master of Appeals to the Council of State, attached
to the supreme Ministerial Council, and in favor with the Dauphin and
Dauphiness. It would be very good of you to say nothing against him,
but it would be better still if you would attend the election this
year, carry the day, and hinder that poor Monsieur de Chavoncourt from
representing the town of Besancon."
"What sudden interest have you in this Savaron?"
"Monsieur Albert Savaron de Savarus, the natural son of the Comte de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: dreadful things happened."
"What things?"
"Why the divorce - and - but you are a stranger and I shouldn't
talk about these family affairs to you. You had better tell me what
has happened to our young lady."
"I must tell that to your master first."
The woman came back at this moment and said to Muller, "Come with
me, please. Berner, you are to stay here until the gentleman goes
out again."
Muller followed her through several rooms into a large bed-chamber
where he found an elderly man, very evidently ill, lying in bed.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came
the great disillusionment.
The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, re-
volves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles,
and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half
of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular
hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long
before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface
must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely
one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated
its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It
War of the Worlds |
