| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: --But it cannot be helped! I am one with art, as you are one with
virtue."
"Poor child!" said the Baroness, moved amid her own sorrows by a
strange sense of compassionate sympathy; "I will pray to God for you;
for you are the victim of society, which must have theatres. When you
are old, repent--you will be heard if God vouchsafes to hear the
prayers of a--"
"Of a martyr, madame," Josepha put in, and she respectfully kissed the
Baroness' skirt.
But Adeline took the actress' hand, and drawing her towards her,
kissed her on the forehead. Coloring with pleasure Josepha saw the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: perceive its tremor. Thus a brief second, while the battle was
fought within him, the bitter engagement between his desires and
what he conceived to be the demands of his honour, never perceiving
how far his honour was buttressed by implacable vindictiveness.
Retreat, he conceived, was impossible without shame; and shame was
to him an agony unthinkable. She asked too much. She could not
understand what she was asking, else she would never be so
unreasonable, so unjust. But also he saw that it would be futile
to attempt to make her understand.
It was the end. Though he kill Andre-Louis Moreau in the morning
as he fiercely hoped he would, yet the victory even in death must
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: honest, and how could I make it up to them who bought
me? Mr. Commissioner, if you let them land-sharks
take the roof from over my children and the little from
them as they has to live on, whoever again calls this state
great or its government just will have a lie in their
mouths"
The Commissioner laid this letter aside with a sigh.
Many, many such letters he had received. He had never
been hurt by them, nor had he ever felt that they appealed
to him personally. He was but the state's servant, and
must follow its laws. And yet, somehow, this reflection
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