| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: and carmagnole complete, to build up and pull down, according to
their wicked will, were only handling, somewhat more roughly, the
same wires which had been handled for several generations by the
Comptroller-General and Council of State, with their provincial
intendants.
"Do you know," said Law to the Marquis d'Argenson, "that this
kingdom of France is governed by thirty intendants? You have
neither parliament, nor estates, nor governors. It is upon thirty
masters of request, despatched into the provinces, that their evil
or their good, their fertility or their sterility, entirely depend."
To do everything for the people, and let them do nothing for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: along the shore. Hearing that note as it gushed from a soul, I fancied
I saw among the rocks the foot of an angel, who with outspread wings
cried out to me, "Thou shalt succeed!" I came down radiant, light-
hearted; I bounded like a pebble rolling down a rapid slope. When she
saw me, she said,--
"What is it?"
I did not answer; my eyes were moist. The night before, Pauline had
understood my sorrows, as she now understood my joy, with the magical
sensitiveness of a harp that obeys the variations of the atmosphere.
Human life has glorious moments. Together we walked in silence along
the beach. The sky was cloudless, the sea without a ripple; others
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: appointment; and, a few minutes before midnight, stood on the gray
shingle beach with her counsellor.
"You be safe enough here to-night, miss. My old man is snoring
sound abed, and there's no other soul ever sets foot here o'
nights, except it be the mermaids now and then. Goodness, Father,
where's our boat? It ought to be up here on the pebbles."
Rose pointed to a strip of sand some forty yards nearer the sea,
where the boat lay.
"Oh, the lazy old villain! he's been round the rocks after pollock
this evening, and never taken the trouble to hale the boat up.
I'll trounce him for it when I get home. I only hope he's made her
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