| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: into it. Well, he is going to be disappointed--at least while I
am on deck. Sally!"
"Well?"
"As long as you live, if it's a hundred years, don't you ever make
an inquiry. Promise!"
"All right," with a sigh and reluctantly.
Then Aleck softened and said:
"Don't be impatient. We are prospering; we can wait; there is
no hurry. Our small dead-certain income increases all the time;
and as to futures, I have not made a mistake yet--they are piling
up by the thousands and tens of thousands. There is not another
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: bruit. Je n'entends rien. Pourquoi ne crie-t-il pas, cet homme?
Ah! si quelqu'un cherchait e me tuer, je crierais, je me debattrais,
je ne voudrais pas souffrir . . . Frappe, frappe, Naaman. Frappe,
je te dis . . . Non. Je n'entends rien. Il y a un silence affreux.
Ah! quelque chose est tombe par terre. J'ai entendu quelque chose
tomber. C'etait l'epee du bourreau. Il a peur, cet esclave! Il a
laisse tomber son epee. Il n'ose pas le tuer. C'est un lache, cet
esclave! Il faut envoyer des soldats. [Elle voit le page
d'Herodias et s'adresse e lui.] Viens ici. Tu as ete l'ami de
celui qui est mort, n'est-ce pas? Eh bien, il n'y a pas eu assez de
morts. Dites aux soldats qu'ils descendent et m'apportent ce que je
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: then it is . . ." He hummed a snatch very low,
leaning against the wall.
Oh, ho, ho Rio!
And fare thee well,
My bonnie young girl,
We're bound to Rio Grande
"Capstan song," he explained. Her teeth chat-
tered.
"You are cold," he said. "Here's that affair
of yours I picked up." She felt his hands about
her, wrapping her closely. "Hold the ends to-
To-morrow |
