| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: act renders negatory that of justice. But however we may desire to
spare you at such a moment, the law requires that we should make an
exact report of all violent deaths. You will permit us to do our
duty?"
"May I go and change my dress?" she asked, laying down the volume.
"Yes, madame; but you must bring it back to us. The doctor may need
it."
"It would be too painful for madame to see me operate," said the
doctor, understanding the suspicions of the prosecutor. "Messieurs,"
he added, "I hope you will allow her to remain in the next room."
The magistrates approved the request of the merciful physician, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: and adds thirty-fold to the troubles of the voyager. What I
required was something cheap and small and hardy, and of a stolid
and peaceful temper; and all these requisites pointed to a donkey.
There dwelt an old man in Monastier, of rather unsound intellect
according to some, much followed by street-boys, and known to fame
as Father Adam. Father Adam had a cart, and to draw the cart a
diminutive she-ass, not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a
mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw. There was
something neat and high-bred, a quakerish elegance, about the rogue
that hit my fancy on the spot. Our first interview was in
Monastier market-place. To prove her good temper, one child after
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: imaginable. And after that, for a weary time, I did the police and divorce
courts. But it all came well in the end and did me good. You are luckier in
making your start with Sunday work. It's not particularly great. What of it?
Do it. Show the stuff you're made of, and you'll get a call for better
work--better class and better pay. Now you go out this afternoon to the Loops,
and engage to do two turns."
"But what kind of turns can I do?" Edna asked dubiously.
"Do? That's easy. Can you sing? Never mind, don't need to sing. Screech, do
anything--that's what you're paid for, to afford amusement, to give bad art
for the populace to howl down. And when you do your turn, take some one along
for chaperon. Be afraid of no one. Talk up. Move about among the amateurs
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