| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: certificates because he did not know what to do with them. He dared
not draw the money himself for fear it should be noticed; he did not
wish to sell them, and was still trying to find some way of
transferring the certificates. In this horrible state of uncertainty
he bethought him of acknowledging all to his wife and getting her
advice. Zelie, who always managed affairs for him so well, she could
get him out of his troubles. The three-per-cent Funds were now selling
at eighty. Restitution! why, that meant, with arrearages, giving up a
million! Give up a million, when there was no one who could know that
he had taken it!--
So Minoret continued through September and a part of October
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: Attributed to Epictetus
I
A life entangled with Fortune is like a torrent. It is
turbulent and muddy; hard to pass and masterful of mood: noisy
and of brief continuance.
II
The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing
source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich,
and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
III
It is a shame that one who sweetens his drink with the gifts
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Mr. Rochester with a subpoena; he's wanted at the Turnbull inquest
as a material witness."
CHAPTER VIII
THE INQUEST
Coroner Penfield adjusted his eyeglasses and scanned the spectators
gathered for the Turnbull inquest. The room was crowded with both
men and women, the latter predominating, and the coroner decided
that, while some had come from a personal interest in the dead man,
the majority had been attracted by morbid curiosity. There was a
stir among the spectators as an inner door opened and the jury,
led by the morgue master filed into the room and took their places.
The Red Seal |
