| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: gave you Saturday?"
Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly
he smiled idiotically, and said:--
"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
Monsieur's lawyer."
"You are certain of what you say?"
Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
happened to be again in Eugene's apartment.
"Joseph is right," I said.
Eugene turned and looked at me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: inexpressible delight. It was perhaps for this reason that he
was fond of Shenstone's pastorals, and some parts of PARADISE
LOST. The author has heard his most unmusical voice repeat the
celebrated description of Paradise, which he seemed fully to
appreciate. His other studies were of a different cast, chiefly
polemical. He never went to the parish church, and was therefore
suspected of entertaining heterodox opinions, though his
objection was probably to the concourse of spectators, to whom he
must have exposed his unseemly deformity. He spoke of a future
state with intense feeling, and even with tears. He expressed
disgust at the idea, of his remains being mixed with the common
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: the elm tree was dark. The cockchafers flew clumsily about,
falling to the ground when they collided with anything.
After supper Father Sergius began to repeat a silent prayer: 'O
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon us!' and then he
read a psalm, and suddenly in the middle of the psalm a sparrow
flew out from the bush, alighted on the ground, and hopped
towards him chirping as it came, but then it took fright at
something and flew away. He said a prayer which referred to his
abandonment of the world, and hastened to finish it in order to
send for the merchant with the sick daughter. She interested him
in that she presented a distraction, and because both she and her
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