| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: myself as like as that is to my dear old Rouville."
At this hint the Baroness looked at her young friend and smiled,
while her face lighted up with an expression of sudden gratitude.
Hippolyte suspected that the old admiral wished to offer him the
price of both portraits while paying for his own. His pride as an
artist, no less than his jealousy perhaps, took offence at the
thought, and he replied:
"Monsieur, if I were a portrait-painter I should not have done
this one."
The admiral bit his lip, and sat down to cards.
The painter remained near Adelaide, who proposed a dozen hands of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: I pray you turne the key, and keepe our counsaile.
Enter.
Aemil. Alas, what do's this Gentleman conceiue?
How do you Madam? how do you my good Lady?
Des. Faith, halfe a sleepe
Aemi. Good Madam,
What's the matter with my Lord?
Des. With who?
Aemil. Why, with my Lord, Madam?
Des. Who is thy Lord?
Aemil. He that is yours, sweet Lady
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: understand what I mean."
Fyne mumbled between his teeth that he understood. But he did not
seem interested. What he expected of me was to extricate him from a
difficult situation. I don't know how far credible this may sound,
to less solemn married couples, but to remain at variance with his
wife seemed to him a considerable incident. Almost a disaster.
"It looks as though I didn't care what happened to her brother," he
said. "And after all if anything . . . "
I became a little impatient but without raising my tone:
"What thing?" I asked. "The liability to get penal servitude is so
far like genius that it isn't hereditary. And what else can be
Chance |
