| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: so large a property and pay for it on the spot. The Abbe Dutheil wrote
a line to Monsieur Bonnet, who came to Limoges at once, and was taken
to the hotel Graslin.
Veronique determined to ask the rector to dinner; but the banker would
not let him go up to his wife's apartment until he had talked to him
in his office for over an hour and obtained such information as fully
satisfied him, and made him resolve to buy the forest and domains of
Montegnac at once for the sum of five hundred thousand francs. He
acquiesced readily in his wife's wish that this purchase and all
others connected with it should be in fulfilment of the clause of the
marriage contract relative to the investment of her dowry. Graslin was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: He shaked my heart, but I will shave his head.
[Exeunt.]
ACT V. SCENE I. A street in London.
[Enter Bedford solus.]
BEDFORD.
My soul is like a water troubled,
And Gardiner is the man that makes it so.
O, Cromwell, I do fear they end is near:
Yet I'll prevent their malice if I can.
And in good time, see where the man doth come,
Who little knows how nears his day of doom.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: attacks. The Indians are desperate. You can easily see that in the way in
which they almost threw their lives away. The green square is covered with
dead Indians."
"If help does not come in twenty-four hours not one man will escape alive.
Even Wetzel could not break through that line of Indians. But if we can hold
the Indians off a day longer they will get tired and discouraged. Girty will
not be able to hold them much longer. The British don't count. It's not their
kind of war. They can't shoot, and so far as I can see they haven't done much
damage."
"To your posts, men, and every man think of the women and children in the
block-house."
Betty Zane |
