| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: to watch the lad driving up the High Street, perched aloft on the box-
seat of the tilbury, whip in hand, and a rose in his button-hole,
handsome, well turned out, envied by every one.
Pressing need would bring Victurnien with uneasy eyes and coaxing
manner, but steady voice, to the modest house in the Rue du Bercail;
there had been losses at cards at the Troisvilles, or the Duc de
Verneuil's, or the prefecture, or the receiver-general's, and the
Count had come to his providence, the notary. He had only to show
himself to carry the day.
"Well, what is it, M. le Comte? What has happened?" the old man would
ask, with a tremor in his voice.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: figure too, I don't say! Yes, with a figure, a really good one,
like Fanny Floyd-Taylor's, who's hideous, I'd have risked plain
glasses. Que voulez-vous? No one is perfect.' She says she still
has money left, but I don't believe a word of it. She has been
speculating on her impunity, on the idea that her danger would hold
off: she has literally been running a race with it. Her theory
has been, as you from the first so clearly saw, that she'd get in
ahead. She swears to me that though the 'bar' is too cruel she
wears when she's alone what she has been ordered to wear. But when
the deuce is she alone? It's herself of course that she has
swindled worst: she has put herself off, so insanely that even her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
