| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: at the lace on my invariable black silk; but what did it matter
whether I owned that I was a genteel pauper, representing my aunt's
position for two months, or not?
"Where?"
"In Waterbury."
"Waterbury differs from Newport."
"I suppose so."
"You suppose!"
A young gentleman sauntered by us, and Mr. Uxbridge called to him
to look up the Misses Uxbridge, his nieces, on the other side of
the hall.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: saying. I did not answer. Then turning toward me, he said:
"I must tell you the whole story; you will make a book out of it;
no one will believe it, but it will perhaps be interesting to
do."
"You will tell me all about it later on, my friend," I said to
him; "you are not strong enough yet."
"It is a warm evening, I have eaten my ration of chicken," he
said to me, smiling; "I have no fever, we have nothing to do, I
will tell it to you now."
"Since you really wish it, I will listen."
This is what he told me, and I have scarcely changed a word of
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: App. Put this in any liquid thing you will
And drinke it off, and if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight
Rom. There's thy Gold,
Worse poyson to mens soules,
Doing more murther in this loathsome world,
Then these poore compounds that thou maiest not sell.
I sell thee poyson, thou hast sold me none,
Farewell, buy food, and get thy selfe in flesh.
Come Cordiall, and not poyson, go with me
To Iuliets graue, for there must I vse thee.
Romeo and Juliet |
