| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: cruelly if he had to leave me so much as an hour a day. Besides,
I have not such a long time to live that I need make myself
miserable in order to please an old man whose very sight makes me
feel old. Let him keep his money; I will do without it."
"But what will you do?"
"I don't in the least know."
Prudence was no doubt going to make some reply, but I entered
suddenly and flung myself at Marguerite's feet, covering her
hands with tears in my joy at being thus loved.
"My life is yours, Marguerite; you need this man no longer. Am I
not here? Shall I ever leave you, and can I ever repay you for
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: and pull my hair! He stop the drink a little while
when she come, and he got work. And then he begin
worse and worse. It seem like he never loved me any
more after the baby. He curse me, he quarrel. He
begin to strike me sometimes. I laugh and cry at first
and make up and try again----"
Again she paused as if for courage to go on, and
choked into silence.
"Yes--and then?" the girl asked.
"And then he come home one night wild drunk. He
stumble and fall across the cradle and hurt my baby so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: you."
"It's already gone, sir."
"GONE?" It had the sound of an unspeakable disappointment in it.
"Yes, sir. Time-table for Brixton and all the towns beyond changed
to-day, sir--had to get the papers in twenty minutes earlier than
common. I had to rush; if I had been two minutes later--"
The men turned and walked slowly away, not waiting to hear the rest.
Neither of them spoke during ten minutes; then Cox said, in a vexed
tone,
"What possessed you to be in such a hurry, I can't make out."
The answer was humble enough:
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
