| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: tional upheaval, and the sailing away of Rezanov.
It was true that what he banteringly termed her
romantic sadness possessed her at times, but it
served as a shadow to throw into sharper relief an
almost incredible happiness. If she seldom saw
Rezanov alone there was the less to disturb her, and
at least he was never far from her side. There were
always the delight of unexpected moments unseen,
whispered words in the crowd, the sense of com-
plete understanding, broken now and again by poig-
nant attacks of unreasoning jealousy, not only on
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: the shears of my father! I can't disinherit you, but I curse you,--you
and your cousin and your children! Nothing good will come of it! Do
you hear? If it was to Charles--but, no; it's impossible. What! has
that wretched fellow robbed me?--"
He looked at his daughter, who continued cold and silent.
"She won't stir; she won't flinch! She's more Grandet than I'm
Grandet! Ha! you have not given your gold for nothing? Come, speak the
truth!"
Eugenie looked at her father with a sarcastic expression that stung
him.
"Eugenie, you are here, in my house,--in your father's house. If you
Eugenie Grandet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: are made on such stories. Lord Woodville never once asked him if
he was sure he did not dream of the apparition, or suggested any
of the possibilities by which it is fashionable to explain
supernatural appearances as wild vagaries of the fancy, or
deceptions of the optic nerves, On the contrary, he seemed deeply
impressed with the truth and reality of what he had heard; and,
after a considerable pause regretted, with much appearance of
sincerity, that his early friend should in his house have
suffered so severely.
"I am the more sorry for your pain, my dear Browne," he
continued, "that it is the unhappy, though most unexpected,
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