| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: coercing the Third Estate, did you not hear again the voice of
Philippe de Vilmorin? Did you not reflect that it was the mind of
the man you had murdered, resurrected in me his surviving friend,
which made necessary your futile attempt under arms last January,
wherein your order, finally beaten, was driven to seek sanctuary
in the Cordelier Convent? And that night when from the stage of
the Feydau you were denounced to the people, did you not hear yet
again, in the voice of Scaramouche, the voice of Philippe de
Vilmorin, using that dangerous gift of eloquence which you so
foolishly imagined you could silence with a sword-thrust? It is
becoming a persecution - is it not? - this voice from the grave
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: those scenes in which Salvini does not appear, and the
spectator is left at the mercy of Macduffs and Duncans, the
play would go twice as well, and we should be better able to
follow and enjoy an admirable work of dramatic art.
CRITICISMS
CHAPTER III - BAGSTER'S 'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'
I HAVE here before me an edition of the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS,
bound in green, without a date, and described as 'illustrated
by nearly three hundred engravings, and memoir of Bunyan.'
On the outside it is lettered 'Bagster's Illustrated
Edition,' and after the author's apology, facing the first
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: As he spoke, he reversed the stocking, holding it by the toe, and down
from it dropped a roundish stone, wrapped about by a piece of
yellowish paper. "Now for the first interstellar message of the
century!" he cried; and nodding to the company, who had crowded about
him, he adjusted his glasses with provoking deliberation, and examined
it closely. When he finished, he had changed from the jolly host to
the practical, decisive man of business. He immediately struck a bell,
and said to the silent-footed mulatto man who responded: "Go and tell
Mr. Wesley to get Reeves and Maurice and about ten stout hands they
can rely upon, and come to the hall door at once. Tell him to have the
men arm themselves, and bring plenty of ropes and plough lines. Tell
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