| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: were visible.
"Here are the horse's hoofs again, it seems, Athos," he said
carelessly.
"Yes, indeed, the marks are recent."
"Quite so," replied the lieutenant.
"Who went out this morning?" Athos asked, uneasily. "Has any
horse got loose?"
"Not likely," answered the Gascon; "these marks are
regular."
"Where is Raoul?" asked Athos; "how is it that I have not
seen him?"
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: had been depriving myself of spending my money, and yet he was
delighted to see his wishes fulfilled; he laughed and scolded, he
looked at his barrel, at his horse, and wiped away a tear, as he
said, 'It is too bad. What a splendid barrel! You really ought
not. Why, that horse is as strong as an Auvergnat!'
"I never saw a more touching scene. Bourgeat insisted on buying
for me the case of instruments mounted in silver which you have
seen in my room, and which is to me the most precious thing
there. Though enchanted with my first success, never did the
least sign, the least word, escape him which might imply, 'This
man owes all to me!' And yet, but for him, I should have died of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
And give them repetition to the life.
Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe:
Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
Awake, and tell thy dream.
[Disappears.]
PERICLES.
Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
I will obey thee. Helicanus!
[Re-enter Helicanus, Lysimachus, and Marina.]
HELICANUS.
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