| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: upon their shoulders and closed their eyes. The others who were
watching them began to shriek with terror, and the lions, remembering
the feast perhaps, stretched themselves out yawning against the edge
of the dens.
Then Salammbo was seen on the platform of her terrace. She ran wildly
about it from left to right. Hamilcar perceived her. It seemed to him
that she was holding up her arms towards him to ask for pardon; with a
gesture of horror he plunged into the elephants' park.
These animals were the pride of the great Punic houses. They had
carried their ancestors, had triumphed in the wars, and they were
reverenced as being the favourites of the Sun.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: matter again under a new form, and ask for the appointment of a
judicial counsel. That's what the family council meets for to-morrow;
and I think, this time, my dear Madame Lambert, your old Picot will
find himself restrained. There are serious allegations, I can tell
you. It was all very well to take the eggs, but to pluck the hen was
another thing."
"Is it possible that monsieur can suppose--" began the devote,
clasping her hands under her chin.
"I suppose nothing," said Cerizet; "I am not the judge of this affair.
But the relations declare that you have pocketed considerable sums,
and made investments about which they demand inquiry."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: Where that investigated, this has the facts. Where that walked by faith,
this may walk by sight. Where that halted, this must go forward,
and where that failed, this must succeed, giving the country whole
measures where that gave us half-measures, merely as a means of
saving the elections in a few doubtful districts. That Congress saw
what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses;
but what was forborne in distrust of the people must now be done
with a full knowledge that the people expect and require it.
The members go to Washington fresh from the inspiring presence of the people.
In every considerable public meeting, and in almost every conceivable way,
whether at court-house, school-house, or cross-roads, in doors and out,
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