| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Large, grey, creepered residence, four reception, two bed, six
bath, commands extensive views, ten minutes from workhouse, etc.,
etc."
"Is it 'White Ladies?'"
"It is. From which you now behold me an outcast- a wanderer
upon the face of the earth. But how did you know?"
"They'll be quiet by now," she said, ignoring my question. "The
bees, I mean."
"I'm not so sure."
She rose to her knees, but I laid a hand on her shoulder.
"What are you going to do, lass?"
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: trusting you, propose to come to you . . . that you may advise me . .
. assist me . . . Oh! are there women so horrible as that . . .? And
she proposes to send it to my husband? Tell me what happened. Tell
me all that happened.
LORD GORING. Mrs. Cheveley was concealed in a room adjoining my
library, without my knowledge. I thought that the person who was
waiting in that room to see me was yourself. Robert came in
unexpectedly. A chair or something fell in the room. He forced his
way in, and he discovered her. We had a terrible scene. I still
thought it was you. He left me in anger. At the end of everything
Mrs. Cheveley got possession of your letter - she stole it, when or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Peter; I have good news for you."
The other opened his eyes, stretched, and at last sat up.
"What is it, Maenck?" he asked querulously.
"Great news, my prince," replied the other.
"While you have been sleeping many things have trans-
pired within the walls of your castle. The king's troopers
have departed; but that is a small matter compared with
the other. Here, behind the portrait of your great-grand-
mother, I have listened and watched all night. I opened the
secret door a fraction of an inch--just enough to permit me
to look into the apartment where the king and the American
The Mad King |
