| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: That Banket bids thee too.
HIPPOLITA.
Though much unlike [Kneeling.]
You should be so transported, as much sorry
I should be such a Suitour; yet I thinke,
Did I not by th'abstayning of my joy,
Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit
That craves a present medcine, I should plucke
All Ladies scandall on me. Therefore, Sir,
As I shall here make tryall of my prayres,
Either presuming them to have some force,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: step.'
He was near home now, after many devious wanderings, and turned
up John Street. As he thrust his latchkey in the lock, another
mortifying reflection struck him to the heart.
'Not even this house is mine till I can prove him dead,' he
snarled, and slammed the door behind him so that the windows in
the attic rattled.
Night had long fallen; long ago the lamps and the shop-fronts had
begun to glitter down the endless streets; the lobby was
pitch--dark; and, as the devil would have it, Morris barked his
shins and sprawled all his length over the pedestal of Hercules.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: Chapter 95
Father and Daughter.
We saw in a preceding chapter how Madame Danglars went
formally to announce to Madame de Villefort the approaching
marriage of Eugenie Danglars and M. Andrea Cavalcanti. This
announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the
approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous
affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers
must be admitted. We beg them to take one step backward, and
to transport themselves, the morning of that day of great
catastrophes, into the showy, gilded salon we have before
The Count of Monte Cristo |
