| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: stranger.
"Oh well, Hector can let you have the Varietes, and Lucien can spare
you the Porte Saint-Martin.--Let him have the Porte Saint-Martin,
Lucien, he is wild about Fanny Beaupre; and you can take the Cirque-
Olympique in exchange. I shall have Bobino and the Funambules and
Madame Saqui. Now, what have we for to-morrow?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"Gentlemen, be brilliant for my first number. The Baron du Chatelet
and his cuttlefish bone will not last for a week, and the writer of Le
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: Modern life stretched out its steam feeler to this
point three or four times a day, touched the native
existences, and quickly withdrew its feeler again, as
if what it touched had been uncongenial.
They reached the feeble light, which came from the
smoky lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough
terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more importance
to Talbothays Dairy and mankind than the celestial ones
to which it stood in such humiliating contrast. The
cans of new milk were unladen in the rain, Tess getting
a little shelter from a neighbouring holly tree.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: "And besides, here's Ravenswood in the way still, do you think
he'll give up Lucy's engagement?"
"To be sure he will," answered Craigengelt; "what good can it do
him to refuse, since he wishes to marry another woman and she
another man?"
"And you believe seriously," said Bucklaw, "that he is going to
marry the foreign lady we heard of?"
"You heard yourself," answered Craigengelt, "what Captain
Westenho said about it, and the great preparation made for their
blythesome bridal."
"Captain Westenho," replied Bucklaw, "has rather too much of
The Bride of Lammermoor |
