| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: out at times:--
"Ginevra! Oh, my Ginevra!"
It was almost night when he reached his wretched room. He entered very
softly, fearing to cause too strong an emotion to his wife, whom he
had left so weak. The last rays of the sun, entering through the
garret window, were fading from Ginevra's face as she sat sleeping in
her chair, and holding her child upon her breast.
"Wake, my dear one," he said, not observing the infant, which shone,
at that moment, with supernatural light.
Hearing that voice, the poor mother opened her eyes, met Luigi's look,
and smiled; but Luigi himself gave a cry of horror; he scarcely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: It's keeping our property from going into Mexico."
"Are there any letters for me?" asked Gale.
"Letters! Say, my boy, it'd take something pretty important to
get me or any man here back Casita way. If the town is safe these
days the road isn't. It's a month now since any one went to
Casita."
Gale had received several letters from his sister Elsie, the last of
which he had not answered. There had not been much opportunity
for writing on his infrequent returns to Forlorn River; and,
besides, Elsie had written that her father had stormed over what
he considered Dick's falling into wild and evil ways.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: "Will it take much time to amass a million?" she asked.
"Look here!" said the old miser, "you know what a napoleon is? Well,
it takes fifty thousand napoleons to make a million."
"Mamma, we must say a great many /neuvaines/ for him."
"I was thinking so," said Madame Grandet.
"That's the way, always spending my money!" cried the father. "Do you
think there are francs on every bush?"
At this moment a muffled cry, more distressing than all the others,
echoed through the garrets and struck a chill to the hearts of Eugenie
and her mother.
"Nanon, go upstairs and see that he does not kill himself," said
Eugenie Grandet |
