| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: money?"
"We will join you at cards, Madame Grandet," said Madame des Grassins.
"We might have two tables, as we are all here."
"As it is Eugenie's birthday you had better play loto all together,"
said Pere Grandet: "the two young ones can join"; and the old cooper,
who never played any game, motioned to his daughter and Adolphe.
"Come, Nanon, set the tables."
"We will help you, Mademoiselle Nanon," said Madame des Grassins
gaily, quite joyous at the joy she had given Eugenie.
"I have never in my life been so pleased," the heiress said to her; "I
have never seen anything so pretty."
Eugenie Grandet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "It isn't HE says it, it's I!" the boy returned, apparently easier,
but sinking back against the wall; while his restored friend, who
had sat down beside him, took his hand and bent over him.
"Darling child, one does what one can; there are so many things to
consider," urged Mrs. Moreen. "It's his PLACE - his only place.
You see YOU think it is now."
"Take me away - take me away," Morgan went on, smiling to Pemberton
with his white face.
"Where shall I take you, and how - oh HOW, my boy?" the young man
stammered, thinking of the rude way in which his friends in London
held that, for his convenience, with no assurance of prompt return,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Rondelet
Vesalius
Paracelsus
Buchanan
THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Let me begin this lecture {1} with a scene in the North Atlantic 863
years since.
"Bjarne Grimolfson was blown with his ship into the Irish Ocean; and
there came worms and the ship began to sink under them. They had a
boat which they had payed with seals' blubber, for that the sea-
worms will not hurt. But when they got into the boat they saw that
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