| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Ravenswood, sternly; "and it will be equally unnecessary and
dishonourable to waste another word in useless remonstrance or
reproach. There, madam," he said, laying down before Lucy the
signed paper and the broken piece of gold--"there are the
evidences of your first engagement; may you be more faithful to
that which you have just formed. I will trouble you to return
the corresponding tokens of my ill-placed confidence; I ought
rather to say, of my egregious folly."
Lucy returned the scornful glance of her lover with a gaze from
which perception seemed to have been banisshed; yet she seemed
partly to have understood his meaning, for she raised her hands
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: snubbing that the pretty ones can keep us in our place. Men, as
Miss Howe or Miss Harlowe would have said, 'are such ENCROACHERS.'
For my part, I am body and soul with the women; and after a well-
married couple, there is nothing so beautiful in the world as the
myth of the divine huntress. It is no use for a man to take to the
woods; we know him; St. Anthony tried the same thing long ago, and
had a pitiful time of it by all accounts. But there is this about
some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that
they suffice to themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone
without the countenance of any trousered being. I declare,
although the reverse of a professed ascetic, I am more obliged to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: "Daddy! dear daddy's dyin'!" and doing her best to cry.
Grateful? Oh, yes, I'm grateful, but keep her away from here.
Your mother 'ud never ha' stood 'er, and, anyhow, women are queer. . . .
There's women will say I've married a second time.
Not quite! But give pore Aggie a hundred, and tell her your lawyers'll fight.
She was the best o' the boiling -- you'll meet her before it ends;
I'm in for a row with the mother -- I'll leave you settle my friends:
For a man he must go with a woman, which women don't understand --
Or the sort that say they can see it they aren't the marrying brand.
But I wanted to speak o' your mother that's Lady Gloster still --
I'm going to up and see her, without it's hurting the will.
Verses 1889-1896 |
