| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: dream of going. I have a great deal to talk to you about, of
demmed importance, too. [Sits down with him at L. table.]
CECIL GRAHAM. Oh! We all know what that is! Tuppy can't talk
about anything but Mrs. Erlynne.
LORD WINDERMERE. Well, that is no business of yours, is it, Cecil?
CECIL GRAHAM. None! That is why it interests me. My own business
always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
LORD DARLINGTON. Have something to drink, you fellows. Cecil,
you'll have a whisky and soda?
CECIL GRAHAM. Thanks. [Goes to table with LORD DARLINGTON.] Mrs.
Erlynne looked very handsome to-night, didn't she?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: we managed to escape from her castle, and we are now on
our way to Glinda the Good to see if she possesses the
power to restore us to our former shapes."
"Then I must beg your pardons; all of you must
forgive me," said Jinjur, putting away the broom. "I
took you to be a lot of wild, unmannerly animals, as
was quite natural. You are very welcome to my home and
I'm sorry I haven't the power to help you out of your
troubles. Please use my house and all that I have, as
if it were your own."
At this declaration of peace, the Bear got upon his
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: mile away, where the air moves freely, you shall look in vain
for one.
Note 5, "HOOK" of mother-of-pearl. Bright-hook fishing, and
that with the spear, appear to be the favourite native
methods.
Note 6, "LEAVES," the plates of Tahiti.
Note 7, "YOTTOWAS," so spelt for convenience of
pronunciation, QUASI Tacksmen in the Scottish Highlands. The
organisation of eight subdistricts and eight yottowas to a
division, which was in use (until yesterday) among the Tevas,
I have attributed without authority to the next clan: see
Ballads |
