| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: in his own country, and so I set to work and read the service,
from 'Dearly beloved' to 'amazement', as well as I could; and
when I came to 'I, Henry, take thee, Nyleptha,' I translated,
and also 'I, Nyleptha, take thee, Henry,' which she repeated
after me very well. Then Sir Henry took a plain gold ring from
his little finger and placed it on hers, and so on to the end.
The ring had been Curtis' mother's wedding-ring, and I could
not help thinking how astonished the dear old Yorkshire lady
would have been if she could have foreseen that her wedding-ring
was to serve a similar purpose for Nyleptha, a Queen of the Zu-Vendi.
As for Agon, he was with difficulty kept calm while this second
Allan Quatermain |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: demigrarent, liberos, uxores suaque omnia in silvis deponerent atque omnes
qui arma ferre possent unum in locum convenirent. Hunc esse delectum
medium fere regionum earum quas Suebi obtinerent; hic Romanorum adventum
expectare atque ibi decertare constituisse. Quod ubi Caesar comperit,
omnibus iis rebus confectis, quarum rerum causa exercitum traducere
constituerat, ut Germanis metum iniceret, ut Sugambros ulcisceretur, ut
Ubios obsidione liberaret, diebus omnino XVIII trans Rhenum consumptis,
satis et ad laudem et ad utilitatem profectum arbitratus se in Galliam
recepit pontemque rescidit.
Exigua parte aestatis reliqua Caesar, etsi in his locis, quod omnis
Gallia ad septentriones vergit, maturae sunt hiemes, tamen in Britanniam
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: rapping on his door, and it was not until the door itself
opened that he looked up quickly and saw the little retired
dressmaker standing on the threshold, carrying a cup of tea
on a tiny Japanese tray. She held it toward him.
"I was making some tea," she said, "and I thought you would
like to have a cup."
Never after could the little dressmaker understand how she
had brought herself to do this thing. One moment she had
been sitting quietly on her side of the partition, stirring
her cup of tea with one of her Gorham spoons. She was
quiet, she was peaceful. The evening was closing down
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