| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: slowly, ran thus:--
"You have always made me happy; I like to hear you speak; I like
to see you; I like to be near you; I believe you are very good,
and very superior; I know you are stern to those who are careless
and idle, but you are kind, very kind to the attentive and
industrious, even if they are not clever. Master, I should be
GLAD to live with you always;" and she made a sort of movement,
as if she would have clung to me, but restraining herself she
only added with earnest emphasis--"Master, I consent to pass my
life with you."
"Very well, Frances."
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: entertainments more superb than those which preceded and followed the
sovereign's marriage with an Austrian archduchess. Never, in the most
splendid days of the Monarchy, had so many crowned heads thronged the
shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or
so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scattered over the women's dresses,
and the gold and silver embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so
strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wealth of the globe
seemed to be rolling through the drawing-rooms of Paris. Intoxication
seemed to have turned the brains of this Empire of a day. All the
military, not excepting their chief, reveled like parvenus in the
treasure conquered for them by a million men with worsted epaulettes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: volunteered no remark. "To think of Jimmie Turnbull being
poisoned!"
"It is unbelievable," she said, and her vehemence was a surprise to
Kent; he knew her as all froth and bubble. What had brought the
dark circles under her eyes and the unwonted seriousness in her
manner?
"Unbelievable, yes," he agreed gravely. "But true; the autopsy
ended all doubt."
"You mean it developed doubt," she corrected, and a sigh accompanied
the words. "Have the police any clew to the guilty man?"
"I don't know, I'm sure," Kent spoke with caution.
The Red Seal |
