| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Perhaps it was good for her, the necessity of putting up a bold
front, to join the conspiracy that was to hold Dick's place in the
world against the hope of his return. And she still went to the
Sayre house, sure that there at least there would be no curious
glances, no too casual questions. She could not be sure of that
even at home, for Nina was constantly conjecturing.
"I sometimes wonder-" Nina began one day, and stopped.
"Wonder what?"
"Oh, well, I suppose I might as well go on. Do you ever think that
if Dick had gone back, as they say he has, that there might be
somebody else?"
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: cloistered on the inside, with pillars, and not with
arches below. As for offices, let them stand at dis-
tance, with some low galleries, to pass from them
to the palace itself.
Of Gardens
G0D Almighty first planted a garden. And
indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man;
without which, buildings and palaces are but
gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that
when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: "You looked so beautiful, that I could not say anything," David
answered candidly.
"Then, just now I am not so beautiful?" inquired she.
"It is not that," he said; "but I was so happy to have this walk alone
with you, that----" he stopped short in confusion, and looked at the
hillside and the road to Saintes.
"If the walk is any pleasure to you, I am delighted; for I owe you an
evening, I think, when you have given up yours for me. When you
refused to go to Mme. de Bargeton's, you were quite as generous as
Lucien when he made the demand at the risk of vexing her."
"No, not generous, only wise," said David. "And now that we are quite
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