| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: quitted old Madame Pelet. I obeyed, but I swore rancorously to
be avenged one day. "I'll earn a right to do as I please in this
matter, or I'll die in the contest. I have one object before me
now--to get that Genevese girl for my wife; and my wife she shall
be--that is, provided she has as much, or half as much regard for
her master as he has for her. And would she be so docile, so
smiling, so happy under my instructions if she had not? would she
sit at my side when I dictate or correct, with such a still,
contented, halcyon mien?" for I had ever remarked, that however
sad or harassed her countenance might be when I entered a room,
yet after I had been near her, spoken to her a few words, given
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: following a long drive on the Pine River. It rained
steadily for six days. We were soaked to the skin
all the time, ate standing up in the driving downpour,
and slept wet. So cold was it that each morning
our blankets were so full of frost that they crackled
stiffly when we turned out. Dispassionately I can
appraise that as about the worst I ever got into. Yet
as an impression the Pine River trip seems to me a
most enjoyable one.
So after you have been home for a little while the
call begins to make itself heard. At first it is very
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: pleasures had never importuned Roger by a single indiscreet ambition,
and his heart was a treasure-house of kindness. Never had she longed
for diamonds or fine clothes, and had again and again refused the
luxury of a carriage which he had offered her. To look out from her
balcony for Roger's cab, to go with him to the play or make excursions
with him, on fine days in the environs of Paris, to long for him, to
see him, and then to long again,--these made up the history of her
life, poor in incidents but rich in happiness.
As she rocked the infant, now a few months old, on her knee, singing
the while, she allowed herself to recall the memories of the past. She
lingered more especially on the months of September, when Roger was
|
