| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: And you reproach me for the jealous care which alone can nurse this
modest and fragile shoot into a wealth of lasting and mysterious
happiness! I believed myself to have found out how to adapt the charm
of a mistress to the position of a wife, and you have almost made me
blush for my device. Who shall say which of us is right, which is
wrong? Perhaps we are both right and both wrong. Perhaps this is the
heavy price which society exacts for our furbelows, our titles, and
our children.
I too have my red camellias, but they bloom on my lips in smiles for
my double charge--the father and the son--whose slave and mistress I
am. But, my dear, your last letters made me feel what I have lost! You
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: never before bound up in a body of clay."
"There was some talk of a quack who waited on him," said Varney,
after a moment's reflection. "Are you sure there is no one in
England who has this secret of thine?"
"One man there was," said the doctor, "once my servant, who might
have stolen this of me, with one or two other secrets of art.
But content you, Master Varney, it is no part of my policy to
suffer such interlopers to interfere in my trade. He pries into
no mysteries more, I warrant you, for, as I well believe, he hath
been wafted to heaven on the wing of a fiery dragon--peace be
with him! But in this retreat of mine shall I have the use of
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: otherwise.
Article XI: Of Confession.
Of Confession they teach that Private Absolution ought to be
retained in the churches, although in confession an
enumeration of all sins is not necessary. For it is impossible
according to the Psalm: Who can understand his errors? Ps. 19,
12.
Article XII: Of Repentance.
Of Repentance they teach that for those who have fallen after Baptism
there is remission of sins whenever they are converted and that
the Church ought to impart absolution to those thus returning to
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