| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "Hullo, bub!" he cried to Bobby, tossing him to his shoulder.
"How's the kid?"
They went out together, while awaiting dinner, to see the new setter
puppy in the woodshed.
"Named him yet?" asked Orde.
"Duke," said Bobby.
Orde surveyed the animal gravely.
"Seems like a good name," said he.
After dinner the two adjourned to the library, where they sat
together in the "big chair," and Bobby, squirmed a little sidewise
in order the better to see, watched the smoke from his father's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: you much."
"It is God's doing, madame," replied Ursula.
"God!" exclaimed Minoret-Levrault; "my father-in-law used to say he
served to blanket many horses."
"Your father-in-law had the mind of a jockey," said the doctor
severely.
"Come," said Minoret to his wife and son, "why don't you bow to my
uncle?"
"I shouldn't be mistress of myself before that little hypocrite,"
cried Zelie, carrying off her son.
"I advise you, uncle, not to go to mass without a velvet cap," said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: sheet which, in Paris, falls on every facade to the north. About half-
way along the quay at a gloomy archway we see the beginning of the
private houses which were built in consequence of the construction of
the Pont Neuf in the reign of Henry IV. The Place Royale was a replica
of the Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick
with binding courses of hewn stone. This archway and the Rue de Harlay
are the limit line of the Palais de Justice on the west. Formerly the
Prefecture de Police, once the residence of the Presidents of
Parlement, was a dependency of the Palace. The Court of Exchequer and
Court of Subsidies completed the Supreme Court of Justice, the
Sovereign's Court. It will be seen that before the Revolution the
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