| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: newspapers?--Go on," she added after a pause.
"Three months after everything was signed and sealed between the Count
and Gobseck----"
"You can call him the Comte de Restaud, now that Camille is not here,"
said the Vicomtesse.
"So be it! Well, time went by, and I saw nothing of the counter-deed,
which by rights should have been in my hands. An attorney in Paris
lives in such a whirl of business that with certain exceptions which
we make for ourselves, we have not the time to give each individual
client the amount of interest which he himself takes in his affairs.
Still, one day when Gobseck came to dine with me, I asked him as we
Gobseck |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: "The ranger service wants to rule western Texas," went on
Lawson. "These rangers are all a low set, many of them worse
than the outlaws they hunt. Some of them were outlaws and
gun-fighters before they became rangers. This is one of the
worst of the lot. He's keen, intelligent, smooth, and that
makes him more to be feared. For he is to be feared. He wanted
to kill. He would kill. If your father had made the least move
he would have shot him. He's a cold-nerved devil--the born
gunman. My God, any instant I expected to see your father fall
dead at my feet!"
"Oh, Floyd! The unspeakable ruffian!" cried Ray Longstreth,
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul
clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till
they at last shut out the rest of the world, and sometimes
intervene between itself and heaven.
This, it may be said, can only be applicable to those
members of the community who are in humble circumstances;
wealthier individuals will display tastes akin to those which
belonged to them in aristocratic ages. I contest the
proposition: in point of physical gratifications, the most
opulent members of a democracy will not display tastes very
different from those of the people; whether it be that, springing
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