| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: important matter."
"Certainly I am. Quite sure. If I were not at dinner, I would have
down the code, and you should see for yourself. If the case comes on,
you will lose it, and you will never set foot in my house again, for I
do not wish to receive people whom I do not respect. Do you
understand? You will lose your case."
"Oh! no, not at all, I shall not lose it, sir," said Taboureau. "You
see, sir, it is this way; it is the man from Saint-Laurent who owes ME
the barley; I bought it of him, and now he refuses to deliver it. I
just wanted to make quite certain that I should gain my case before
going to any expense at court about it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: gentleman too. An extravagant beggar."
A young man entered smartly Messrs. Mesman Brothers' office on the
"front," bubbling with some further information.
"Oh, yes; that's the Bonito for certain! But you don't know the
story I've heard just now. The fellow must have been feeding that
river with firearms for the last year or two. Well, it seems he
has grown so reckless from long impunity that he has actually dared
to sell the very ship's rifles this time. It's a fact. The rifles
are not on board. What impudence! Only, he didn't know that there
was one of our warships on the coast. But those Englishmen are so
impudent that perhaps he thought that nothing would be done to him
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: taught in the same way.
Moreover, whatever defects there may have been--and defects there
must be in all things human--in the past education of British
women, it has been most certainly a splendid moral success. It
has made, by the grace of God, British women the best wives,
mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, that the world, as far as I
can discover, has yet seen.
Let those who will, sneer at the women of England. We who have to
do the work and to fight the battle of life know the inspiration
which we derive from their virtue, their counsel, their
tenderness, and--but too often--from their compassion and their
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