| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: they would make when the Boer-woman was gone, and the farm belonged to them
alone. There should be a new room here, and a kraal there. So they
chatted on. Suddenly Gregory dropped the handle, and impressed a fervent
kiss on the fat hand that guided the linen.
"You are so beautiful, Em," said the lover. "It comes over me in a flood
suddenly how I love you."
Em smiled.
"Tant Sannie says when I am her age no one will look at me; and it is true.
My hands are as short and broad as a duck's foot, and my forehead is so
low, and I haven't any nose. I can't be pretty."
She laughed softly. It was so nice to think he should be so blind.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: Lorrain was sold under an order of the court, and that Mademoiselle
Lorrain's claim was swallowed up. I know this, for I was commissioner
at the time."
The notary spoke of Colonel Lorrain, who, had he lived, would have
been much amazed to know that his daughter was in such an institution.
The Rogrons beat a retreat, saying to each other that the world was
very malicious. Sylvie perceived that the news of her benevolence had
missed its effect,--in fact, she had lost ground in all minds; and she
felt that henceforth she was forbidden to attempt an intimacy with the
upper class of Provins. After this evening the Rogrons no longer
concealed their hatred of that class and all its adherents. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Those are your laws. Not a single provision but lands you in some
absurdity. That man with yellow gloves and a golden tongue
commits many a murder; he sheds no blood, but he drains his
victim's veins as surely; a desperado forces open a door with a
crowbar, dark deeds both of them! You yourself will do every one
of those things that I suggest to you to-day, bar the bloodshed.
Do you believe that there is any absolute standard in this world?
Despise mankind and find out the meshes that you can slip through
in the net of the Code. The secret of a great success for which
you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found
out, because it was properly executed."
Father Goriot |
