| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: this room, that I would take care of your mother. That saintly woman,
I am told, is getting well again; now is the time to pour oil into
your wounds. I have for you here two hundred thousand francs; I will
give them to you----"
The lawyer's gesture was worthy of his uncle the Marshal.
"Be quite easy," said the Prince, smiling; "it is money in trust. My
days are numbered; I shall not always be here; so take this sum, and
fill my place towards your family. You may use this money to pay off
the mortgage on your house. These two hundred thousand francs are the
property of your mother and your sister. If I gave the money to Madame
Hulot, I fear that, in her devotion to her husband, she would be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: myself that the cacaos are drinking deep. I am desperately
hunted to finish my Samoa book before the mail goes; this
last chapter is equally delicate and necessary. The prayers
of the congregation are requested. Eheu! and it will be
ended before this letter leaves and printed in the States ere
you can read this scribble. The first dinner gong has
sounded; JE VOUS SALUE, MONSIEUR ET CHER CONFRERE. TOFA,
SOIFUA! Sleep! long life! as our Samoan salutation of
farewell runs.
FRIDAY, MAY 13TH.
Well, the last chapter, by far the most difficult and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: "Oh!"
"Yes, sir," returned the other. "The opinion you advance coincides
with the very words of Jacob Boehme. In the forty-eighth proposition
of the Threefold Life of Man he says that 'if God hath brought all
things to pass with a LET THERE BE, the FIAT is the secret matrix
which comprehends and apprehends the nature which is formed by the
spirit born of Mercury and of God.' "
"What do you say, sir?"
The German delivered his quotation afresh.
"We do not know it," said the clerks.
"Fiat? . . ." said a clerk. "Fiat lux!"
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