| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Wroth at himself. Not willing to be known,
He left the barren-beaten thoroughfare,
Chose the green path that showed the rarer foot,
And there among the solitary downs,
Full often lost in fancy, lost his way;
Till as he traced a faintly-shadowed track,
That all in loops and links among the dales
Ran to the Castle of Astolat, he saw
Fired from the west, far on a hill, the towers.
Thither he made, and blew the gateway horn.
Then came an old, dumb, myriad-wrinkled man,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: wrong, the Tourangians are fond of inheriting from their parents.
Consequently the doctrines of Saint-Simon were especially hated and
villified among them. In Touraine hatred and villification take the
form of superb disdain and witty maliciousness worthy of the land of
good stories and practical jokes,--a spirit which, alas! is yielding,
day by day, to that other spirit which Lord Byron has characterized as
"English cant."
For his sins, after getting down at the Soleil d'Or, an inn kept by a
former grenadier of the imperial guard named Mitouflet, married to a
rich widow, the illustrious traveller, after a brief consultation with
the landlord, betook himself to the knave of Vouvray, the jovial
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: is situated beyond the Ural Mountains, on the farthest
eastern slopes of the chain. Nevertheless, it belongs to the
government of Perm; and, consequently, is included in one
of the great divisions of European Russia. It is as though
a morsel of Siberia lay in Russian jaws.
Neither Michael nor his companions were likely to ex-
perience the slightest difficulty in obtaining means of con-
tinuing their journey in so large a town as Ekaterenburg.
It was founded in 1723, and has since become a place of
considerable size, for in it is the chief mint of the empire.
There also are the headquarters of the officials employed in
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