| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: of coming to Moscow, too."
"And cannot land be rented?
"How's one to rent it nowadays? The gentry, such as they were,
have squandered all theirs. Men of business have got it all into
their own hands. One can't rent it from them. They farm it
themselves. We have a Frenchman ruling in our place; he bought
the estate from our former landlord, and won't let it--and
there's an end of it."
"Who's that Frenchman?"
"Dufour is the Frenchman's name. Perhaps you've heard of him. He
makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: to remind you of the Rhine or Rhone, of the low COTE D'OR, or
the infamous and scabby deserts of Champagne; but all is
green, solitary, covert. We visited two of them, Mr.
Schram's and Mr. M'Eckron's, sharing the same glen.
Some way down the valley below Calistoga, we turned sharply
to the south and plunged into the thick of the wood. A rude
trail rapidly mounting; a little stream tinkling by on the
one hand, big enough perhaps after the rains, but already
yielding up its life; overhead and on all sides a bower of
green and tangled thicket, still fragrant and still flower-
bespangled by the early season, where thimble-berry played
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: alone and unguarded save by the representatives of the Nation, came
to Paris to complete the peacemaking, the surrender of Privilege.
The Court was filled with terror by the adventure. Were they not
the "enemy," these mutinous Parisians? And should a King go thus
among his enemies? If he shared some of that fear, as the gloom of
him might lead us to suppose, he must have found it idle. What if
two hundred thousand men under arms - men without uniforms and with
the most extraordinary motley of weapons ever seen - awaited him?
They awaited him as a guard of honour.
Mayor Bailly at the barrier presented him with the keys of the city.
"These are the same keys that were presented to Henri IV. He had
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