| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: with a face of drunken wisdom on the events of the evening. What
seemed chiefly to interest him, was the character of Allan
M'Aulay. "To come over the Englishmen so cleverly with his
Highland torch-bearers--eight bare-breeched Rories for six silver
candlesticks!--it was a master-piece--a TOUR DE PASSE--it was
perfect legerdemain--and to be a madman after all!--I doubt
greatly, my lord" (shaking his head), "that I must allow him,
notwithstanding his relationship to your lordship, the privileges
of a rational person, and either batoon him sufficiently to
expiate the violence offered to my person, or else bring it to a
matter of mortal arbitrement, as becometh an insulted cavalier."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: drawn into something unpleasant, she tried to catch at the skirt of
his coat, to hold him back, but he, good soul, obeying his charitable
first thought, brought out his offer to see the lady home, before his
wife could stop him.
"The man of whom the citoyenne is afraid is still prowling about the
shop, it seems," she said sharply.
"I am afraid so," said the lady innocently.
"How if it is a spy? . . . a plot? . . . Don't go. And take the box
away from her----"
The words whispered in the pastry-cook's ear cooled his hot fit of
courage down to zero.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: than if the pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now
does once, and bestow on every believer these remissions and
participations?"
89. "Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of
souls rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences
and pardons granted heretofore, since these have equal
efficacy?"
90. To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by
force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to
expose the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their
enemies, and to make Christians unhappy.
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