| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: them was a powerful tie, and this was why, when about to
appear before the Master of another world, Mazarin was
desirous of taking good counsel in disposing of the wealth
he was so unwillingly obliged to leave in this world. After
the visit of Guenaud, he therefore sent for Colbert, desired
him to sit down. and said to him: "Let us converse, Monsieur
Colbert, and seriously, for I am very ill, and I may chance
to die."
"Man is mortal," replied Colbert.
"I have always remembered that, M. Colbert, and I have
worked with that end in view. You know that I have amassed a
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: most fitting the occasion, bent his steps towards the Warren.
Dressed with more than his usual elegance; assuming a gracefulness
of manner, which, though it was the result of long study, sat
easily upon him and became him well; composing his features into
their most serene and prepossessing expression; and setting in
short that guard upon himself, at every point, which denoted that
he attached no slight importance to the impression he was about to
make; he entered the bounds of Miss Haredale's usual walk. He had
not gone far, or looked about him long, when he descried coming
towards him, a female figure. A glimpse of the form and dress as
she crossed a little wooden bridge which lay between them,
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: matters that he must attend to) bade me follow him immediately to
the office.
Once there, he sought no longer to dissemble his concern, walking
to and fro in the room with a contorted face, and passing his hand
repeatedly upon his brow.
"We have some business," he began at last; and there broke off,
declared we must have wine, and sent for a magnum of the best.
This was extremely foreign to his habitudes; and what was still
more so, when the wine had come, he gulped down one glass upon
another like a man careless of appearances. But the drink steadied
him.
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