| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lerndorf now," as the minister was announced.
Von der Tann bowed himself out as the Austrian entered
the king's presence. For the first time in two years the
chancellor felt that the destiny of Lutha was safe in the
hands of her king. What had caused the metamorphosis
in Leopold he could not guess. He did not seem to be the
same man that had whined and growled at their last audi-
ence a week before.
The Austrian minister entered the king's presence with an
expression of ill-concealed surprise upon his face. Two days
before he had left Leopold safely ensconced at Blentz,
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: all that sort of thing!'
As he spoke, he twisted it up, and glancing lazily round at Hugh as
though he would say 'You see this?' held it in the flame of the
candle. When it was in a full blaze, he tossed it into the grate,
and there it smouldered away.
'It was directed to my son,' he said, turning to Hugh, 'and you did
quite right to bring it here. I opened it on my own
responsibility, and you see what I have done with it. Take this,
for your trouble.'
Hugh stepped forward to receive the piece of money he held out to
him. As he put it in his hand, he added:
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Though the senator was never in disgrace, he was supposed to have
reason to complain of Napoleon. Consequently, when the Bourbons
returned, Louis XVIII., whom Monsieur de Serizy held to be his
legitimate sovereign, treated the senator, now a peer of France, with
the utmost confidence, placed him in charge of his private affairs,
and appointed him one of his cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March,
Monsieur de Serizy did not go to Ghent. He informed Napoleon that he
remained faithful to the house of Bourbon; would not accept his
peerage during the Hundred Days, and passed that period on his estate
at Serizy.
After the second fall of the Emperor, he became once more a privy-
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