| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: destined to shelter. During the last century a printing establishment
had worn down the polished floors, soiled the carved wood, blackened
the walls, and altered the principal internal arrangements. Formerly
the residence of a Cardinal, this fine house was now divided among
plebeian tenants. The character of the architecture showed that it had
been built under the reigns of Henry III., Henry IV., and Louis XIII.,
at the time when the hotels Mignon and Serpente were erected in the
same neighborhood, with the palace of the Princess Palatine, and the
Sorbonne. An old man could remember having heard it called, in the
last century, the hotel Duperron, so it seemed probable that the
illustrious Cardinal of that name had built, or perhaps merely lived
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: of almost exciting anxiety to Charlotte what Gertrude would say or
would do next.
She began to sit for her portrait on the following day--
in the open air, on the north side of the piazza. "I wish
you would tell me what you think of us--how we seem to you,"
she said to Felix, as he sat before his easel.
"You seem to me the best people in the world," said Felix.
"You say that," Gertrude resumed, "because it saves you the trouble
of saying anything else."
The young man glanced at her over the top of his canvas.
"What else should I say? It would certainly be a great deal
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: xiv. 14; xvii. 26; Geopon. xix. 5.
[2] {e elaphos} (generic, Attic) = hart or hind, of roe (Capreolus
caprea) or red (Cervus elaphus) deer alike, I suppose. See St.
John, "Nat. Hist. and Sport in Moray."
[3] Of the Persian or Grecian greyhound type perhaps. See Aristot. "H.
A." viii. 28; Aelian, "N. A." viii. 1; Pollux, v. 37, 38, 43;
Plin. "H. N." vii. 2, viii. 28; Oppian, "Cyn." i. 413.
Quite young fawns[4] should be captured in spring, that being the
season at which the dams calve.[5] Some one should go beforehand into
the rank meadowlands[6] and reconnoitre where the hinds are
congregated, and wherever that may be, the master of the hounds will
|
