| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: he stood upright again, and his face was very white. The stage had
disappeared, and he now saw only the reverse side of the scenery
with its display of old posters pasted up in every direction. On
the practicable slope, among the lines of gas jets, the whole of
Olympus had rejoined the dozing Mme Drouard. They were waiting for
the close of the act. Bosc and Fontan sat on the floor with their
knees drawn up to their chins, and Prulliere stretched himself and
yawned before going on. Everybody was worn out; their eyes were
red, and they were longing to go home to sleep.
Just then Fauchery, who had been prowling about on the O.P. side
ever since Bordenave had forbidden him the other, came and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: her work. He glanced at the green fagots with a sneer, and
looked askance at the bed and the white sheets, at the strip
of carpet laid, like an island, on the great expanse of the
stone floor, and at the broken glazing of the casement
clumsily repaired with paper.
'Leave that fire a-be,' he cried. 'What, have I toiled all
my life to turn innkeeper at the hind end? Leave it a-be, I
say.'
'La, uncle, it doesn't burn a bit; it only smokes,' said
Nance, looking up from her position.
'You are come of decent people on both sides,' returned the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: poor, and has brought about intervals of too long duration when men
have faltered in their allegiance to God. Such ascendency as we have
over our flocks to-day depends entirely on our personal influence with
them; is it not deplorable that the existence of religious belief in a
commune should be dependent on the esteem in which a single man is
held? When the preservative force of Christianity permeating all
classes of society shall have put life into the new order of things,
there will be an end of sterile disputes about doctrine. The cult of a
religion is its form; societies only exist by forms. You have your
standard, we have the cross----"
"I should very much like to know, sir," said Genestas, breaking in
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