| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: "You see, Sisters, that if I had conceived the horrible idea of
betraying you, I could have given you up already, more than once----"
At the words the priest came out of his hiding-place and stood in
their midst.
"I cannot believe, monsieur, that you can be one of our persecutors,"
he said, addressing the stranger, "and I trust you. What do you want
with me?"
The priest's holy confidence, the nobleness expressed in every line in
his face, would have disarmed a murderer. For a moment the mysterious
stranger, who had brought an element of excitement into lives of
misery and resignation, gazed at the little group; then he turned to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: defence. Frequently, I was told to amuse Miss Matilda with other
things, and to remind her of her mother's precepts and
prohibitions. I did so to the best of my power: but she would not
be amused against her will, and could not against her taste; and
though I went beyond mere reminding, such gentle remonstrances as I
could use were utterly ineffectual.
'DEAR Miss Grey! it is the STRANGEST thing. I suppose you can't
help it, if it's not in your nature - but I WONDER you can't win
the confidence of that girl, and make your society at LEAST as
agreeable to her as that of Robert or Joseph!'
'They can talk the best about the things in which she is most
Agnes Grey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "What! you even remember my name?"
"I should think so. Why, I and my sisters have even been in love
with you," she said, in French. "But, dear me, how you have
altered. Oh, what a pity I have to go out. But let us go up
again," she said and stopped hesitatingly. Then she looked at the
clock. "No, I can't. I am going to Kamenskaya's to attend a mass
for the dead. She is terribly afflicted."
"Who is this Kamenskaya?"
"Have you not heard? Her son was killed in a duel. He fought
Posen. He was the only son. Terrible I The mother is very much
afflicted."
Resurrection |
