| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Let me sleep on that hard point," said Varney; "I cannot else
perfect the device I have on the stithy, which I trust will
satisfy the Queen and please my honoured lady, yet leave this
fatal secret where it is now buried. Has your lordship further
commands for the night?"
"I would be alone," said Leicester. "Leave me, and place my
steel casket on the table. Be within summons."
Varney retired, and the Earl, opening the window of his
apartment, looked out long and anxiously upon the brilliant host
of stars which glimmered in the splendour of a summer firmament.
The words burst from him as at unawares, "I had never more need
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau
The Commission in Lunacy
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment
The Secrets of a Princess
The Government Clerks
Pierrette
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
Isaac Allerton Edmund Margesson
Miles Standish Peter Brown
John Alden Richard Bitteridge
John Turner George Soule
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