| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: other. Dinah will be well guarded."
"Ah, ha! Then Madame de la Baudraye has not yet made up her mind?"
said Lousteau.
"So mamma thinks. For my part, I am afraid that Monsieur de Clagny has
at last succeeded in bewitching Madame de la Baudraye. If he has been
able to show her that he had any chance of putting on the robes of the
Keeper of the Seals, he may have hidden his moleskin complexion, his
terrible eyes, his touzled mane, his voice like a hoarse crier's, his
bony figure, like that of a starveling poet, and have assumed all the
charms of Adonis. If Dinah sees Monsieur de Clagny as Attorney-
General, she may see him as a handsome youth. Eloquence has great
The Muse of the Department |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: shadowy earth, about a transient, phantom-like girl, seemed too
ridiculous to associate with. On the other hand there was something
fascinating in the very absurdity. He cut along in his best
pedestrian style and I found myself let in for a spell of severe
exercise at eleven o'clock at night.
In the distance over the fields and trees smudging and blotching the
vast obscurity, one lighted window of the cottage with the blind up
was like a bright beacon kept alight to guide the lost wanderer.
Inside, at the table bearing the lamp, we saw Mrs. Fyne sitting with
folded arms and not a hair of her head out of place. She looked
exactly like a governess who had put the children to bed; and her
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Of your transcribers, Your Scriptorium
Is famous among all; your manuscripts
Praised for their beauty and their excellence.
ABBOT.
That is indeed our boast. If you desire it
You shall behold these treasures. And meanwhile
Shall the Refectorarius bestow
Your horses and attendants for the night.
They go in. The Vesper-bell rings.
THE CHAPEL
Vespers: after which the monks retire, a chorister leading an old
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