| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: Lucien and Louise had a spy in Chatelet, a spy who watched, with the
persistence of a hate in which avarice and passion are blended, for an
opportunity of making a scandal. Sixte meant that Mme. de Bargeton
should compromise herself with Lucien in such a way that she should be
"lost," as the saying goes; so he posed as Mme. de Bargeton's humble
confidant, admired Lucien in the Rue du Minage, and pulled him to
pieces everywhere else. Nais had gradually given him les petites
entrees, in the language of the court, for the lady no longer
mistrusted her elderly admirer; but Chatelet had taken too much for
granted--love was still in the Platonic stage, to the great despair of
Louise and Lucien.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: watched him. Across the stream, the horses wandered or lay down
in their pasture. At length he said with half a sigh that perhaps
they ought to go.
"Ought?" she repeated softly.
"If we are to get anywhere to-day," he answered.
"Need we get anywhere?" she asked.
Her question sent delight through him like a flood. "Then you do
not want to move camp to-day?" said he.
She shook her head.
At this he laid down his rod and came and sat by her. "I am very
glad we shall not go till tomorrow," he murmured.
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Voluspe.
When brethren shall be
Each other's bane,
And sisters' sons rend
The ties of kin.
Hard will be that age,
An age of bad women,
An axe-age, a sword-age,
Shields oft cleft in twain,
A storm-age, a wolf-age,
Ere earth meet its doom.
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