| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: man, she lavished on him the most childlike caresses, the tenderest
names; she even went so far as to kiss him to induce him to divulge so
important a secret. The old man, who spent his life in playing off
these scenes on his niece, often paying for them with a present of
jewelry, or by giving her his box at the opera, this time amused
himself with her entreaties, and, above all, her caresses. But as he
spun out this pleasure too long, Emilie grew angry, passed from
coaxing to sarcasm and sulks; then, urged by curiosity, she recovered
herself. The diplomatic admiral extracted a solemn promise from his
niece that she would for the future be gentler, less noisy, and less
wilful, that she would spend less, and, above all, tell him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven
months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is
every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily
together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their
past.
ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes
cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which
present strange and interesting features that it is no easy
matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however,
have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: perfidy took part in a scene of "reconciliation" at the German
consulate.
Malietoa supposed himself betrayed by Tamasese. Consul Churchward
states with precision that the document was sold by a scribe for
thirty-six dollars. Twelve days later at least, November 22nd, the
text of the address to Great Britain came into the hands of Dr.
Stuebel. The Germans may have been wrong before; they were now in
the right to be angry. They had been publicly, solemnly, and
elaborately fooled; the treaty and the reconciliation were both
fraudulent, with the broad, farcical fraudulency of children and
barbarians. This history is much from the outside; it is the
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