| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: abhorrence, for in the purity of her passion lies all its
justification.
ANGOULEME, September 1832.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Beauseant, Marquis and Comte de
Father Goriot
An Episode under the Terror
Beauseant, Marquise de
Letters of Two Brides
Beauseant, Vicomte de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling mariners? or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by Philomel were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
All that, of old, Eurotas, happy stream,
Heard, as Apollo mused upon the lyre,
And bade his laurels learn, Silenus sang;
Till from Olympus, loth at his approach,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: gold, and such a fine sight was never seen in that land before.
As they drew near to the palace a great crowd of servants, clad
in silks and satins and jewels, came out to meet them, singing
and dancing and playing on harps and lutes. The king and the
princess thought that they must be dreaming.
"All this is yours," said Jacob Stuck to the princess; and he was
that fond of her, he would have given her still more if he could
have thought of anything else.
Jacob Stuck and the princess, and the king and the prime-minister, all went into the palace, and
there was a splendid
feast spread in plates of pure gold and silver, and they all four
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