| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: I see--and I shall only interrupt you--so, bye! bye! hey--
young Jockey try'd and countered.
[Exit.]
SIR PETER. Plagues and tortures! She pretends to keep her temper,
can't I make her angry neither! O! I am the miserable fellow!
But I'll not bear her presuming to keep her Temper--No she may
break my Heart--but she shan't keep her Temper.
[Exit.]
SCENE II.--At CHARLES's House
Enter TRIP, MOSES, and SIR OLIVER
TRIP. Here Master Moses--if you'll stay a moment--I'll try whether
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: intent on her business. With a rapid movement of the shoulders she
had let her furs slip from her, and Mme Jules, standing behind, had
caught them in her arms. And then after passing her two hands to
her hair as though to make it fast, she went on the stage in all her
nudity.
"Hush, hush!" whispered Bordenave.
The count and the prince had been taken by surprise. There was
profound silence, and then a deep sigh and the far-off murmur of a
multitude became audible. Every evening when Venus entered in her
godlike nakedness the same effect was produced. Then Muffat was
seized with a desire to see; he put his eye to the peephole. Above
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: sustain her brother's ambitions--this was the programme that he saw
before his eyes in letters of fire.
Journalism and politics, the immense development of the book trade, of
literature and of the sciences; the increase of public interest in
matters touching the various industries in the country; in fact, the
whole social tendency of the epoch following the establishment of the
Restoration produced an enormous increase in the demand for paper. The
supply required was almost ten times as large as the quantity in which
the celebrated Ouvrard speculated at the outset of the Revolution.
Then Ouvrard could buy up first the entire stock of paper and then the
manufacturers; but in the year 1821 there were so many paper-mills in
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