| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: though less rigidly correct outlines of the great actress. Her
expression was one of sweetness and tenderness; but her glance
commanded less respect than that of the noblest Agrippina that ever
trod the French stage since the days of Racine: on the contrary, it
evoked a vulgar joy. In 1816 the Rabouilleuse saw Maxence Gilet, and
fell in love with him at first sight. Her heart was cleft by the
mythological arrow,--admirable description of an effect of nature
which the Greeks, unable to conceive the chivalric, ideal, and
melancholy love begotten of Christianity, could represent in no other
way. Flore was too handsome to be disdained, and Max accepted his
conquest.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: sese continebant. Ubi vineis actis aggere extructo turrim procul
constitui viderunt, primum inridere ex muro atque increpitare vocibus,
quod tanta machinatio a tanto spatio institueretur: quibusnam mallibus
aut quibus viribus praesertim homines tantulae staturae (nam plerumque
omnibus Gallis prae magnitudine corporum quorum brevitas nostra contemptui
est) tanti oneris turrim in muro sese conlocare confiderent?
Ubi vero moveri et adpropinquare muris viderunt, nova atque inusitata
specie commoti legatos ad Caesarem de pace miserunt, qui ad hunc modum
locuti, non se existimare Romanos sine ope divina bellum gerere, qui
tantae altitudinis machinationes tanta celeritate promovere possent, se
suaque omnia eorum potestati permittere dixerunt. Unum petere ac
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: pirates, 'then very notorious' in the Leeward Islands, cruising
after slavers, or carrying dollars and provisions for the
Government. While yet a midshipman, he accompanied Mr. Cockburn to
Caraccas and had a sight of Bolivar. In the brigantine GRIFFON,
which he commanded in his last years in the West Indies, he carried
aid to Guadeloupe after the earthquake, and twice earned the thanks
of Government: once for an expedition to Nicaragua to extort,
under threat of a blockade, proper apologies and a sum of money due
to certain British merchants; and once during an insurrection in
San Domingo, for the rescue of certain others from a perilous
imprisonment and the recovery of a 'chest of money' of which they
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