| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: knot of it. It was not a case for ordinary love-making; this girl
contained the last chapter of a romance, and from that moment all my
attentions were devoted to Rosalie. By dint of studying the girl, I
observed in her, as in every woman whom we make our ruling thought, a
variety of good qualities; she was clean and neat; she was handsome, I
need not say; she soon was possessed of every charm that desire can
lend to a woman in whatever rank of life. A fortnight after the
notary's visit, one evening, or rather one morning, in the small
hours, I said to Rosalie:
" 'Come, tell me all you know about Madame de Merret.'
" 'Oh!' she said, 'I will tell you; but keep the secret carefully.'
La Grande Breteche |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: related to me by different Englishmen. To my shame I am
compelled to say, I am as exact as a copy."
"Charles II. would have died before he could have endured
all that."
Louis XIV. raised his intelligent and proud head. "Madame,"
said he, in a grave tone, still partaking something of the
timid child, "monsieur le cardinal will tell you that during
my minority the affairs of France were in jeopardy, -- and
that if I had been older, and obliged to take sword in hand,
it would sometimes have been for the evening meal."
"Thanks to God," said the cardinal, who spoke for the first
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: when it reached Heidelberg. However, it was still sound,
that was a comfort, it was not battered in the least;
the baggagemen seemed to be conscientiously careful,
in Germany, of the baggage entrusted to their hands.
There was nothing now in the way of our departure, therefore we
set about our preparations.
Naturally my chief solicitude was about my collection
of Ceramics. Of course I could not take it with me,
that would be inconvenient, and dangerous besides.
I took advice, but the best brick-a-brackers were divided
as to the wisest course to pursue; some said pack the
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