| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: their affair, and what was a bay? If they requested
him, as a point of honor, to refrain from examining
the battery of Yerba Buena with his glass, their con-
sciences would be as light as their hearts.
As Rezanov stood alone with Concha in the prow
of the ship and alternately cast softened eyes on her
intense, rapt face, and shrewd glances on the rami-
fications of the bay, he congratulated himself upon
his precipitate action and the collusion of nature.
They were sailing east, and would turn to the north
in a moment. The mountain range bent abruptly
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Barren is thy beauty,
As weed upon a rock.
Wither--soul and blossom!
You both were vainly given;
Earth reserves no blessing
For the unblest of heaven!
Child of delight, with sun-bright hair,
And sea-blue, sea-deep eyes!
Spirit of bliss! What brings thee here
Beneath these sullen skies?
Thou shouldst live in eternal spring,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: considerable sum, not to receive it. You will readily understand
why. Gambling is only likely to be carried on by young people
very much in need of money and not possessing the fortune
necessary for supporting the life they lead; they gamble, then,
and with this result; or else they gain, and then those who lose
serve to pay for their horses and mistresses, which is very
disagreeable. Debts are contracted, acquaintances begun about a
green table end by quarrels in which life or honour comes to
grief; and though one may be an honest man, one finds oneself
ruined by very honest men, whose only defect is that they have
not two hundred thousand francs a year.
Camille |
