| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: and now showed one of us to the other, high-lit in a frame of
blackness, discovered nothing in his grizzled face but settled
hostility. He wheeled at the end of the walk to go to the main
door, but as he did so I saw the flutter of a white skirt by the
stone seat against the house, and I stepped that way.
'Mademoiselle?' I said softly. 'Is it you?'
'Clon?' she muttered, her voice quivering. 'What of him?'
'He is past pain,' I answered gently. 'He is dead--yes, dead,
Mademoiselle, but in his own way. Take comfort.'
She stifled a sob; then before I could say more, the Lieutenant,
with his sergeant and light, were at my elbow. He saluted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: woman laughs so long as she is heart-free, and saddens only when she
loves; whereupon Louise took a lofty tone, and began one of her long
orations, interlarded with high-sounding words.
"Was that your promise to me, Lucien?" she said, as she made an end.
"Do not sow regrets in the present time, so sweet as it is, to poison
my after life. Do not spoil the future, and, I say it with pride, do
not spoil the present! Is not my whole heart yours? What more must you
have? Can it be that your love is influenced by the clamor of the
senses, when it is the noblest privilege of the beloved to silence
them? For whom do you take me? Am I not your Beatrice? If I am not
something more than a woman for you, I am less than a woman."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: qui navi egredi ac se barbaris committere non auderet, V. die ad Caesarem
revertitur quaeque ibi perspexisset renuntiat.
Dum in his locis Caesar navium parandarum causa moratur, ex magna
parte Morinorum ad eum legati venerunt, qui se de superioris temporis
consilio excusarent, quod homines barbari et nostrae consuetudinis
imperiti bellum populo Romano fecissent, seque ea quae imperasset facturos
pollicerentur. Hoc sibi Caesar satis oportune accidisse arbitratus, quod
neque post tergum hostem relinquere volebat neque belli gerendi propter
anni tempus facultatem habebat neque has tantularum rerum occupationes
Britanniae anteponendas iudicabat, magnum iis numerum obsidum imperat.
Quibus adductis eos in fidem recipit. Navibus circiter LXXX onerariis
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