| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: occurred to me at this moment."
"I am listening."
Fouquet made a sign to Gourville, who appeared to
understand. "One of my friends lends me sometimes the keys
of a house which he rents, Rue Baudoyer, the spacious
gardens of which extend behind a certain house on the Place
de Greve."
"That is the place for us," said the abbe. "What house?"
"A cabaret, pretty well frequented, whose sign represents
the image of Notre Dame."
"I know it," said the abbe.
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.
Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike un-
common to me while in the jaws of slavery. The
singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island
might be as appropriately considered as evidence of
contentment and happiness, as the singing of a
slave; the songs of the one and of the other are
prompted by the same emotion.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: de Grandlieu; and he had just bought up the lands of Rubempre at the
cost of a million francs.
Corentin very skilfully made the head of the General Police take the
first steps; and the Prefet de Police a propos to Peyrade, informed
his chief that the appellants in that affair had been in fact the
Comte de Serizy and Lucien de Rubempre.
"We have it!" cried Peyrade and Corentin.
The two friends had laid plans in a moment.
"This hussy," said Corentin, "has had intimacies; she must have some
women friends. Among them we shall certainly find one or another who
is down on her luck; one of us must play the part of a rich foreigner
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