| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: for to-night, for I am going to send you home as tipsy as Shrove
Tuesday. Matifat has sent in wines--oh! wines worthy of Louis XVIII.,
and engaged the Prussian ambassador's cook."
"We expect something enormous from the look of the gentleman,"
remarked Nathan.
"And he is quite aware that he is treating the most dangerous men in
Paris," added Florine.
Matifat was looking uneasily at Lucien; he felt jealous of the young
man's good looks.
"But here is some one that I do not know," Florine continued,
confronting Lucien. "Which of you has imported the Apollo Belvedere
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: tender as it might have been, some of the potatoes, some cheese, an
extra glass of the swipes, and white sugar in our coffee.
You see what it is to be a gentleman - I beg your pardon, what it
is to be a pedlar. It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar
was a great man in a labourer's ale-house; but now that I had to
enact the part for an evening, I found that so it was. He has in
his hedge quarters somewhat the same pre-eminency as the man who
takes a private parlour in an hotel. The more you look into it,
the more infinite are the class distinctions among men; and
possibly, by a happy dispensation, there is no one at all at the
bottom of the scale; no one but can find some superiority over
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: height, and yet to be wholly gathered into the circle of
consciousness which drew its glowing ring about herself and
Darrow. To the aerial listener her words sounded flat and
colourless, but to the self within the ring each one beat
with a separate heart.
It was the day after Darrow's arrival, and he had come down
early, drawn by the sweetness of the light on the lawns and
gardens below his window. Anna had heard the echo of his
step on the stairs, his pause in the stone- flagged hall,
his voice as he asked a servant where to find her. She was
at the end of the house, in the brown-panelled sitting-room
|
