| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: and graceful, she was more intelligent than dancers usually are. As
she put her question, she sniffed at a scent-bottle full of some
aromatic perfume.
"One fine woman is as good as another, madame; and if I don't sniff
the pestilence out of a scent-bottle, nor daub brickdust on my
cheeks--"
"That would be a sinful waste, child, when Nature put it on for you to
begin with," said Heloise, with a side glance at her manager.
"I am an honest woman--"
"So much the worse for you. It is not every one by a long chalk that
can find some one to keep them, and kept I am, and in slap-up style,
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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: concluded a long lecture upon temperance, by reciting, from the
"Gentle Shepherd," a couplet, which he RIGHT HAPPILY transferred
from the vice of avarice to that of ebriety:
He that has just eneugh may soundly sleep,
The owercome only fashes folk to keep.
In the course of the evening the Black Dwarf had not been
forgotten, and the old shepherd, Bauldie, told so many stories of
him, that they excited a good deal of interest. It also
appeared, though not till the third punch-bowl was emptied, that
much of the farmer's scepticism on the subject was affected, as
evincing a liberality of thinking, and a freedom from ancient
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: the Latin. Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium;
its rules are too severe. They go to the university
to put a mansard roof on their whole general education;
but the German student already has his mansard roof, so he
goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty,
such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye,
or special study of the ancient Gothic tongues.
So this German attends only the lectures which belong
to the chosen branch, and drinks his beer and tows his dog
around and has a general good time the rest of the day.
He has been in rigid bondage so long that the large liberty
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