| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: hundred or more men, and that his former name was Marche-a-Terre. A
person to whom we owe important information about all the personages
of this drama saw him there, leading a cow, and was struck by his
simple, ingenuous air, which led her to remark, "That must be a worthy
man."
As for Cibot, otherwise called Pille-Miche, we already know his end.
It is likely that Marche-a-Terre made some attempt to save his comrade
from the scaffold; possibly he was in the square at Alencon on the
occasion of the frightful tumult which was one of the events of the
famous trial of Rifoel, Briond, and la Chanterie.
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The Chouans |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: horror he shut his eyes, and shook his hairy head,
to drive away these thoughts and recollections.
For a moment he would get rid of them, but in
their place horrid black faces with red eyes ap-
peared and frightened him continuously. They
grinned at him, and kept repeating, "Now you
have done away with her you must do away with
yourself, or we will not leave you alone " He
opened his eyes, and again he saw HER and heard
her voice; and felt an immense pity for her and
a deep horror and disgust with himself. Once
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: and to pass through the hall, and in this dim light their figures
possessed a sort of grace and beauty, although they were all
unknown people. Sometimes they went straight through and out into
the garden by the swing door, sometimes they stopped for a few minutes
and bent over the tables and began turning over the newspapers.
Terence and Rachel sat watching them through their half-closed eyelids--
the Johnsons, the Parkers, the Baileys, the Simmons', the Lees,
the Morleys, the Campbells, the Gardiners. Some were dressed
in white flannels and were carrying racquets under their arms,
some were short, some tall, some were only children, and some perhaps
were servants, but they all had their standing, their reason for
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