| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: thousand people; and for solid fun would be worth
going around the world to see. Everything would be
favorable; it was balmy and beautiful spring weather
now, and Nature was all tailored out in her new clothes.
CHAPTER XLI.
THE INTERDICT
HOWEVER, my attention was suddenly snatched
from such matters; our child began to lose
ground again, and we had to go to sitting up with her,
her case became so serious. We couldn't bear to
allow anybody to help in this service, so we two stood
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: and the Tlascalans that had aided them. Never did the wit and
eloquence of a woman cause a swifter change. They screamed and
tore their robes and shook their weapons in the air. Maxtla strove
to speak, but they pulled him down and presently he was flying for
his life. Then they turned upon the Tlascalan envoys and beat them
with sticks, crying:
'This is our answer to Malinche. Run, you dogs, and take it!' till
they were driven from the town.
Now at length the turmoil ceased, and some of the great chiefs came
forward and, kissing the hand of Otomie, said:
'Princess, we your children will guard you to the death, for you
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: blame to the judge. Between his conscience and the facts there is a
whole gulf of determining reasons unknown to the judge, but which
condemn or legitimatize the act. A judge is not God; the duty is to
adapt facts to principles, to judge cases of infinite variety while
measuring them by a fixed standard.
France employs about six thousand judges; no generation has six
thousand great men at her command, much less can she find them in the
legal profession. Popinot, in the midst of the civilization of Paris,
was just a very clever cadi, who, by the character of his mind, and by
dint of rubbing the letter of the law into the essence of facts, had
learned to see the error of spontaneous and violent decisions. By the
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