| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: venthole, while in lanterns fastened to the walls flaring gas jets
crudely illuminatcd the surrounding squalor and gave out a glowing
heat which, as it mounted up the narrow stairwell, grew ever more
intense.
When he reached the foot of the stairs the count once more felt the
hot breath upon his neck and shoulders. As of old it was laden with
the odor of women, wafted amid floods of light and sound from the
dressing rooms above, and now with every upward step he took the
musky scent of powders and the tart perfume of toilet vinegars
heated and bewildered him more and more. On the first floor two
corridors ran backward, branching sharply off and presenting a set
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: practises crimes the most dark and unnatural in the vaults and
secret places of abomination and darkness?"
"The Grand Master of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem is
not tainted by fame, either with heresy or magic," said Thomas de
Vaux.
"But is he not a sordid miser?" said Richard hastily; "has he
not been suspected--ay, more than suspected--of selling to the
infidels those advantages which they would never have won by fair
force? Tush, man, better give the army to be made merchandise of
by Venetian skippers and Lombardy pedlars, than trust it to the
Grand Master of St. John."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: would be very little trouble to thee. I thought perhaps his board
would buy the new yoke of oxen we must have in the fall, and the
price of the fat ones might go to help set up Moses. But it's for
thee to decide."
"I suppose we could take him," said Abigail, seeing that the
decision was virtually made already; "there's the corner room,
which we don't often use. Only, if he should get worse on our
hands--"
"Friend Speakman says there's no danger. He is only weak-breasted,
as yet, and clerking isn't good for him. I saw the young man at
the store. If his looks don't belie him, he's well-behaved and
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