| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: deputy than I; "but you are not of the required age, I think."
"There's a better reason than that," said la Peyrade; "you are my
friend; I find you again what you once were, and I shall keep the
pledges I have given you. As for the election, I prefer that people
say of me, 'He makes deputies, but will be none himself.' Now I must
leave you and keep my appointment. To-morrow in my own rooms, come and
see me; I shall have something to announce."
Whoso has ever been a newspaper man will ever be one; that horoscope
is as sure and certain as that of drunkards. Whoever has tasted that
feverishly busy and relatively lazy and independent life; whoever has
exercised that sovereignty which criticises intellect, art, talent,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: Doasyoulikes were blown into the air, and another third were
smothered in ashes; so that there was only one-third left.
"You see," said the fairy, "what comes of living on a burning
mountain."
"Oh, why did you not warn them?" said little Ellie.
"I did warn them all that I could. I let the smoke come out of the
mountain; and wherever there is smoke there is fire. And I laid
the ashes and cinders all about; and wherever there are cinders,
cinders may be again. But they did not like to face facts, my
dears, as very few people do; and so they invented a cock-and-bull
story, which, I am sure, I never told them, that the smoke was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: collar he saw me, and lifted his hat.
I left the window and sat down in the growing dusk. So the occupant
of lower seven had got on the car at Cresson, probably with Alison
West and her companion. There was some one she cared about enough
to shield. I went irritably to the door and summoned Mrs. Klopton.
"You may throw out those roses," I said without looking at her.
"They are quite dead."
"They have been quite dead for three days," she retorted spitefully.
"Euphemia said you threatened to dismiss her if she touched them."
CHAPTER XIV
THE TRAP-DOOR
The Man in Lower Ten |
