| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: which I entreat your acceptance: I am only sorry that I can be of
no greater service to you."
I gave him four louis-d'ors without being perceived by the
guards; for I thought that if they knew he had this money, they
might have raised the price of their concessions. It occurred to
me, even, to come to an understanding with them, in order to
secure for the young man the privilege of conversing with his
mistress, during the rest of the journey to Havre, without
hindrance. I beckoned the chief to approach, and made the
proposition to him. It seemed to abash the ruffian, in spite of
his habitual effrontery. "It is not, sir," said he, in an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "And I said to Webb Mackenzie: 'Mickey O'Halloran is the man to
see; he'll know the best way to do it as nobody else would.' I
knew I could depend on you."
"You've certainly kissed the blarney stone, Mr. O'Connor,"
returned the revolutionist dryly. "Well, then, what do you want
me to do?"
"Nothing much. Get Henderson out and help us to get safely from
the country whose reputation you black-eye so cheerfully."
"Mercy of Hiven! Bring me the moon and a handful of stars, says
he, as cool as you please."
The ranger told the story of Henderson and Mackenzie's lost child
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: magnet, diamagnetic bodies; using this term in a sense different
from that in which he employed it in his memoir on the magnetization
of light. The term magnetic he reserved for bodies which exhibited
the ordinary attraction. He afterwards employed the term magnetic
to cover the whole phenomena of attraction and repulsion, and used
the word paramagnetic to designate such magnetic action as is
exhibited by iron.
Isolated observations by Brugmanns, Becquerel, Le Baillif, Saigy,
and Seebeck had indicated the existence of a repulsive force
exercised by the magnet on two or three substances; but these
observations, which were unknown to Faraday, had been permitted to
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