| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: tears.
XVII
THE SAME TO THE SAME
April 2nd.
Yesterday the weather was splendid. I dressed myself like a girl who
wants to look her best in her sweetheart's eyes. My father, yielding
to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris--two
dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.
I was making a first trial of this, and peeped out like a flower from
under my sunshade lined with white silk.
As I drove up the avenue of the Champs-Elysees, I saw my Abencerrage
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: above-her riding-habit. "Fred, we must really go."
"Very good," said Fred, who had his own reasons for not being
in the best spirits, and wanted to get away.
"Miss Vincy is a musician?" said Lydgate, following her with his eyes.
(Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness
that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts
that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character,
and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)
"The best in Middlemarch, I'll be bound," said Mr. Featherstone,
"let the next be who she will. Eh, Fred? Speak up for your sister."
"I'm afraid I'm out of court, sir. My evidence would be good
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: of living, making it appear the expression of a graceful
preference for simplicity. It was the mitigated poverty which can
subscribe to a review or two and have a few flowers on the dinner-
table. And already in a small way Glennard was beginning to feel
the magnetic quality of prosperity. Clients who had passed his
door in the hungry days sought it out now that it bore the name of
a successful man. It was understood that a small inheritance,
cleverly invested, was the source of his fortune; and there was a
feeling that a man who could do so well for himself was likely to
know how to turn over other people's money.
But it was in the more intimate reward of his wife's happiness
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