| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: "Not a bit, and in all good faith is driving the fore part
into Ekaterenburg."
"Did I not tell you that it was a good joke, confrere?"
cried Alcide.
"Then, gentlemen, if you will follow me," said Michael,
"we will return to my carriage, and --"
"But the telga," observed the Englishman.
"There is not the slightest fear that it will fly away, my
dear Blount!" exclaimed Alcide; "it has taken such good
root in the ground, that if it were left here until next spring
it would begin to bud."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: this imaginary but insuperable gulf inspired a mad desire to spring to
the countess with the bound of a tiger. In a species of rage he
determined to try the ground and bow openly to the countess. She
returned the bow with one of those slight inclinations of the head
with which women take from their adorers all desire to continue their
attempt. Comte Felix turned round to see who had bowed to his wife; he
saw Nathan, but did not bow, and seemed to inquire the meaning of such
audacity; then he turned back slowly and said a few words to his wife.
Evidently the door of that box was closed to Nathan, who cast a
terrible look of hatred upon Felix.
Madame d'Espard had seen the whole thing from her box, which was just
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: things, lent her, for the moment, a supernatural talent. The head of
the young officer was dashed upon the paper in the midst of an awkward
trembling which she mistook for fear, and in which a physiologist
would have recognized the fire of inspiration. From time to time she
glanced furtively at her companions, in order to hide the sketch if
any of them came near her. But in spite of her watchfulness, there was
a moment when she did not see the eyeglass of the pitiless Amelie
turned full upon the drawing from the shelter of a great portfolio.
Mademoiselle Thirion, recognizing the portrait of the mysterious man,
showed herself abruptly, and Ginevra hastily covered the sheet of
paper.
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