| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: thoughts of love behind the silent brow?"
"Your brother is in love, then?" she asked, betrayed into a movement
of curiosity.
"Yes; my sister Clara, to whom he is as devoted as a mother, wrote to
me that he had fallen in love this summer with a very pretty girl; but
I have had no further news of the affair. Would you believe that the
poor boy used to get up at five in the morning, and went off to settle
his business that he might be back by four o'clock in the country
where the lady was? In fact, he ruined a very nice thoroughbred that I
had just given him. Forgive my chatter, mademoiselle; I have but just
come home from Germany. For a year I have heard no decent French, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: room in close consultation with the valet.
"How long is it since the Professor began to give you money to go
to the theatre on Saturday evenings?"
The first time it happened was on my name day. "What's the rest
of your name? There are so many Johanns on the calendar."
"I am Johann Nepomuk."
Muller took a little calendar from his pocket and turned its pages.
"It was May sixteenth," volunteered the valet.
"Quite right. May sixteenth was a Saturday. And since then you
have gone to the theatre every Saturday evening?"
"Yes, sir.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: deposits and of those at Baku, and the possible decreasing
significance of Baku in Russian industry generally, we
passed to broader perspectives. I asked him what he
thought of the relations between agriculture and industry in
Russia, and supposed that he did not imagine that Russia
would ever become a great industrial country. His answer
was characteristic of the tremendous hopes that nerve these
people in their almost impossible task, and I set it down as
nearly as I can in his own words. For him, of course, the
economic problem was the first, and he spoke of it as the
director of a huge trust might have spoken. But, as he
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