| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: to himself; "then there must be something in the reports
concerning that apartment." Again turning to the General, he
said, "For God's sake, my dear friend, be candid with me, and let
me know the disagreeable particulars which have befallen you
under a roof, where, with consent of the owner, you should have
met nothing save comfort."
The General seemed distressed by this appeal, and paused a moment
before he replied. "My dear lord," he at length said, "what
happened to me last night is of a nature so peculiar and so
unpleasant, that I could hardly bring myself to detail it even to
your lordship, were it not that, independent of my wish to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: this first rush, held back the countess and the general, but too late
he saw the whole raft covered, men pressing together like crowds at a
theatre.
"Savages!" he cried, "it was I who gave you the idea of that raft. I
have saved you, and you deny me a place."
A confused murmur answered him. The men at the edge of the raft, armed
with long sticks, pressed with violence against the shore to send off
the frail construction with sufficient impetus to force its way
through corpses and ice-floes to the other shore.
"Thunder of heaven! I'll sweep you into the water if you don't take
the major and his two companions," cried the stalwart grenadier, who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: of terror.
"My dear child," Madame Chapuzot would say, "that monster--" (a man
who contented himself with only looking, in a sly way,--not daring to
come out and say things,--and such a beautiful creature too, as
Malaga,--of course such a man was a monster, according to Madame
Chapuzot's ideas) "--that monster is trying to get a hold upon you,
and make you do something illegal and criminal. Holy Father, if you
should get into the police-courts! it makes me tremble from head to
foot; suppose they should put you in the newspapers! I'll tell you
what I should do in your place; I'd warn the police."
One particular day, after many foolish notions had fermented for some
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