| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: "No doubt; but, dear Aline, please let us drop
the matter. I feel it too deeply."
Alexandra Dmitrievna remained silent for a
few moments, shaking her head. "And Masha,
your wife, thinks as you do?"
"Yes, quite."
Alexandra Dmitrievna made an inarticulate
sound.
"Brisons la dessus et bonne nuit," said he.
But she did not go. She stood silent a moment.
Then,--
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: stranger with particular care to the narrow planks which here and
there bridged the mud; the following watched them inquisitively; and
some of the students envied the privileged boy who might walk with
these two great masters of speech. Finally, the Doctor took leave of
the stranger, and the ferry-boat pushed off.
At the moment when the boat was afloat on the wide river,
communicating its motion to the soul, the sun pierced the clouds like
a conflagration blazing up on the horizon, and poured forth a flood of
light, coloring slate roof-tops and humbler thatch with a ruddy glow
and tawny reflections, fringed Philippe Auguste's towers with fire,
flooded the sky, dyed the waters, gilded the plants, and aroused the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: But examine the passions and feelings of mankind,
Bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature,
and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor,
and faithfully serve the power that hath carried
fire and sword into your land? If yon cannot do all these,
then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay
bringing ruin upon posterity. Your future connection with Britain,
whom you can neither love nor honor will be forced and unnatural,
and being formed only on the plan of present convenience,
will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first.
But if you say, you can still pass the violations over, then I ask,
Common Sense |
