| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: Three curates remained -- those of St. Merri, St. Sulpice
and St. Eustache. The others withdrew.
"You think, then, that you can help me more efficaciously
than your brothers?" said Gondy.
"We hope so," answered the curates.
"Let us hear. Monsieur de St. Merri, you begin."
"My lord, I have in my parish a man who might be of the
greatest use to you."
"Who and what is this man?"
"A shopkeeper in the Rue des Lombards, who has great
influence upon the commerce of his quarter."
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: chick as it crossed the other tracks. It bumped through the
factory belt, gained speed. Carol could see nothing but gray
fields, which had closed in on her all the way from Gopher
Prairie. Ahead was darkness.
"For an hour, in Minneapolis, I must have been near Erik.
He's still there, somewhere. He'll be gone when I come back.
I'll never know where he has gone."
As Kennicott switched on the seat-light she turned drearily
to the illustrations in a motion-picture magazine.
CHAPTER XXXIV
THEY journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: opposition to hinder his man from being attacked; nay, by skilful
tactics he won him the applause of the opposition. To excuse himself
for not rewarding his subaltern, the chief pointed out the
impossibility of finding a place suddenly for a man on the other side,
without a great deal of manoeuvring. Marcas had hoped confidently for
a place to enable him to marry, and thus acquire the qualification he
so ardently desired. He was two-and-thirty, and the Chamber ere long
must be dissolved. Having detected his man in this flagrant act of bad
faith, he overthrew him, or at any rate contributed largely to his
overthrow, and covered him with mud.
A fallen minister, if he is to rise again to power, must show that he
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