| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: attendent. Ah! j'ai glisse! j'ai glisse dans le sang! C'est d'un
mauvais presage. C'est d'un tres mauvais presage. Pourquoi y a-t-
il du sang ici? . . . Et ce cadavre? Que fait ici ce cadavre?
Pensez-vous que je sois comme le roi d'Egypte qui ne donne jamais un
festin sans montrer un cadavre e ses hotes? Enfin, qui est-ce? Je
ne veux pas le regarder.
PREMIER SOLDAT. C'est notre capitaine, Seigneur. C'est le jeune
Syrien que vous avez fait capitaine il y a trois jours seulement.
HERODE. Je n'ai donne aucun ordre de le tuer.
SECOND SOLDAT. Il s'est tue lui-meme, Seigneur.
HERODE. Pourquoi? Je l'ai fait capitaine!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: accursed Guelph and Ghibelline parties in Florence." It happened
in 1215. See the Paradise, Canto XVI. 139.
v. 111. The boon companion.]
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Shakespeare, 2 Hen. VI. a. iii. s. 2.
v. 160. Bertrand.] Bertrand de Born, Vicomte de Hautefort, near
Perigueux in Guienne, who incited John to rebel against his
father, Henry II. of England. Bertrand holds a distinguished
place among the Provencal poets. He is quoted in Dante, "De
Vulg. Eloq." l. ii. c. 2. For the translation of some extracts
from his poems, see Millot, Hist. Litteraire des Troubadors t. i.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: again--and he won't listen to anything. Why, the Austrian
ambassador came up here, all this distance, to talk about the
etiquette of the--of my wedding, something about precedence, and
he wouldn't even see him."
"He can't annul it," said Mr. Dick angrily. "I'm of age. And I
can support my wife, too, or will be able--soon."
"Dolly's not of age," said Miss Patty wearily. "I've sat up all
night figuring it out. He's going to annul the marriage, or
he'll make a scandal anyhow, and that's just as bad. Dolly,"--
she turned to her sister imploringly--"Dolly, I can't have a
scandal now. You know how Oskar's people have taken this,
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