| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Well, it's this,' said Francie: 'Why do you and me comply if
it's so wicked?'
'Ay, ye have the cant of it too!' cries Montroymont. 'But
I'll tell ye for all that. It's to try and see if we can
keep the rigging on this house, Francie. If she had her way,
we would be beggar-folk, and hold our hands out by the
wayside. When ye hear her - when ye hear folk,' he corrected
himself briskly, 'call me a coward, and one that betrayed the
Lord, and I kenna what else, just mind it was to keep a bed
to ye to sleep in and a bite for ye to eat. - On guard!' he
cried, and the lesson proceeded again till they were called
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: to her than he did; meaning the gentleman whom she had
brought to visit her by way of sham.
She brought him by these tricks to submit to all possible
measures to satisfy her, as well of his circumstances as of his
behaviour. He brought her undeniable evidence of his having
paid for his part of the ship; he brought her certificates from
his owners, that the report of their intending to remove him
from the command of the ship and put his chief mate in was
false and groundless; in short, he was quite the reverse of what
he was before.
Thus I convinced her, that if the men made their advantage
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: Church the Potius mori quam foedari that you admire in republican
tenets,--you will understand the sorrow of the Abbe de Sponde when he
saw in his niece's salon the apostate priest, the renegade, the
pervert, the heretic, that enemy of the Church, the guilty taker of
the Constitutional oath. Du Bousquier, whose secret ambition was to
lay down the law to the town, wished, as a first proof of his power,
to reconcile the minister of Saint-Leonard with the rector of the
parish, and he succeeded. His wife thought he had accomplished a work
of peace where the immovable abbe saw only treachery. The bishop came
to visit du Bousquier, and seemed glad of the cessation of
hostilities. The virtues of the Abbe Francois had conquered prejudice,
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