| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Prec. (giving him her hand). I have still
A hand to give.
Chispa (aside). And I have two to take.
I've heard my grandmother say, that Heaven gives almonds
To those who have no teeth. That's nuts to crack,
I've teeth to spare, but where shall I find almonds?
Vict. What more of this strange story?
Chispa. Nothing more.
Your friend, Don Carlos, is now at the village
Showing to Pedro Crespo, the Alcalde,
The proofs of what I tell you. The old hag,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: beneath his eyes were deeper, the look in their depths more
grave.
"We were such close neighbours to-day, I--I rather thought you'd
call," he stammered. He was uncertain what he was saying--it did
not matter--he was there with her.
"When you're in a circus there isn't much time for calling."
"That's why I've come to call on you." They might have been
sheppherd and sheppherdess on a May-day wooing, for the halting
way in which their words came.
"You're all right?" he went on. "You're happy?"
"Yes, very," she said. Her eyes were downcast.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: would have accepted. If any one had said to me, you can be her
lover for ten pounds, I would have refused. I would have cried
like a child who sees the castle he has been dreaming about
vanish away as he awakens from sleep.
All the same, I wished to know her; it was my only means of
making up my mind about her. I therefore said to my friend that I
insisted on having her permission to be introduced to her, and I
wandered to and fro in the corridors, saying to myself that in a
moment's time she was going to see me, and that I should not know
which way to look. I tried (sublime childishness of love!) to
string together the words I should say to her.
Camille |
