| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: caused the bell to ring. Promptly the mulatto arrived. In a second
Cristemio leaped on De Marsay and held him down with one foot on his
chest, his heel turned towards the throat. De Marsay realized that, if
he struggled, at a single sign from Paquita he would be instantly
crushed.
"Why did you want to kill me, my beloved?" she said. De Marsay made no
reply.
"In what have I angered you?" she asked. "Speak, let us understand
each other."
Henri maintained the phlegmatic attitude of a strong man who feels
himself vanquished; his countenance, cold, silent, entirely English,
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: no one answered, and some of the neighbors, who put their noses
out of their windows or were brought to their doors by the noise,
had assured him that that house, all the openings of which were
tightly closed, had not been inhabited for six months.
While D'Artagnan was running through the streets and knocking at
doors, Aramis had joined his companions; so that on returning him
D'Artagnan found the reunion complete.
"Well!" cried the three Musketeers all together, on seeing
D'Artagnan enter with his brow covered with perspiration and his
countenance upset with anger.
"Well!" cried he, throwing his sword upon the bed, "this man must
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: gest that you take immediate steps to entrench a strong
force north of Lustadt along the road to Blentz."
Von der Tann smiled as he replied. "It is already done,
sire," he said.
"But I passed in along the road this morning," said Bar-
ney, "and saw nothing of such preparations."
"The trenches and the soldiers were there, nevertheless,
sire," replied the old man, "only a little gap was left on
either side of the highway that those who came and went
might not suspect our plans and carry word of them to
the Austrians. A few hours will complete the link across
The Mad King |
