| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: distresses, secret pangs so sudden in their attacks that her strength
was undermined and her natural development arrested. By slow degrees
and through dreadful, though hidden sufferings, the poor child came to
the state in which the companion of her childhood found her when he
sang to her his Breton ditty at the dawn of the October day.
VI
AN OLD MAID'S JEALOUSY
Before we relate the domestic drama which the coming of Jacques
Brigaut was destined to bring about in the Rogron family it is best to
explain how the lad came to be in Provins; for he is, as it were, a
somewhat mute personage on the scene.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: houses, goods, chattels, and images on the great street. I want
you to understand all our customs, and this is the greatest and
most interesting day of the funeral ceremonies."
I urged that I ought not to intrude myself upon them at this
time.
"No, no," she said, "you must not say that. It is not intrusion;
you must stay and dine with us this evening."
When I still insisted upon going she said that if I went they
would feel that I did not care for them, and she was so
persistent that I consented to remain if the maid might be sent
home to the children, which they at once arranged for.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: Was I wrong to trouble you? Are you sorry to have paid this visit
to the Dochart pit?"
"No, no, my old friend!" answered Starr. "We have not lost
our time; but we shall be losing it now, if we do not return
immediately to the cottage. To-morrow we will come back here.
We will blast this wall with dynamite. We will lay open
the new vein, and after a series of soundings, if the seam
appears to be large, I will form a new Aberfoyle Company,
to the great satisfaction of the old shareholders.
Before three months have passed, the first corves full of coal
will have been taken from the new vein."
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