| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: l'Ambermesnil; it was a capital notion, which for that matter she
had guessed from the very first; in her opinion the vermicelli
maker was an excellent man.
"Ah! my dear lady, such a well-preserved man of his age, as sound
as my eyesight--a man who might make a woman happy!" said the
widow.
The good-natured Countess turned to the subject of Mme. Vauquer's
dress, which was not in harmony with her projects. "You must put
yourself on a war footing," said she.
After much serious consideration the two widows went shopping
together--they purchased a hat adorned with ostrich feathers and
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: said, "to look into the sermons wrote by the King of Denmark's
jester." Good, my Lord said I; but there are two Yoricks. The
Yorick your Lordship thinks of, has been dead and buried eight
hundred years ago; he flourished in Horwendillus's court; - the
other Yorick is myself, who have flourished, my Lord, in no court.
- He shook his head. Good God! said I, you might as well confound
Alexander the Great with Alexander the Coppersmith, my lord! -
"'Twas all one," he replied. -
- If Alexander, King of Macedon, could have translated your
Lordship, said I, I'm sure your Lordship would not have said so.
The poor Count de B- fell but into the same ERROR.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: scent."
[8] Or, "a late start means the hounds will be robbed of a find and
the huntsman of his reward."
The net-keeper should wear a light costume. His business is to fix the
nets about the runs,[9] paths, bends, and hollows, and darksome spots,
brooks, dry torrents, or perennial mountain streams. These are the
places to which the hare chiefly betakes itself for refuge; though
there are of course endless others. These, and the side passages into,
and exits from them, whether well marked or ill defined, are to be
stopped just as day breaks; not too early, so that, in case the line
of nets be in the neighbourhood of covert to be searched for game,[10]
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