| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: natural."
"Oh!" she cried, letting an incredulous smile wander over her lips.
"You think that beasts are wholly without passions?" I asked her.
"Quite the reverse; we can communicate to them all the vices arising
in our own state of civilization."
She looked at me with an air of astonishment.
"But," I continued, "the first time I saw M. Martin, I admit, like
you, I did give vent to an exclamation of surprise. I found myself
next to an old soldier with the right leg amputated, who had come in
with me. His face had struck me. He had one of those heroic heads,
stamped with the seal of warfare, and on which the battles of Napoleon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "I am going on board directly," I said. "I shall
pick up one of my anchors and heave in to half-
cable on the other directly my new crew comes on
board and I shall be off at daylight to-morrow!"
"You will," grunted Captain Giles approvingly.
"that's the way. You'll do."
"What did you think? That I would want to
take a week ashore for a rest?" I said, irritated by
his tone. "There's no rest for me till she's out
in the Indian Ocean and not much of it even
then."
The Shadow Line |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: account.'
" 'Well,' cried one and another, seeing the captain return quite out
of breath.
" 'The devil's in it,' said Falcon; 'the man went through a wall, I
believe! As I do not suppose that he is a wizard, I fancy he must
belong to the house! He knows every corner and turning, and easily
escaped.'
" 'I am done for,' said the surgeon, in a gloomy voice.
" 'Come, come, keep calm, Bega,' said I (his name was Bega), 'we will
sit on watch with you till you leave. We will not leave you this
evening.'
The Muse of the Department |
