| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: year. Your question becomes unnecessary and my answer useless."
"You are right," I said, letting my head sink on her knees; "but
I love you madly."
"Well, my friend, you must either love me a little less or
understand me a little better. Your letter gave me a great deal
of pain. If I had been free, first of all I would not have seen
the count the day before yesterday, or, if I had, I should have
come and asked your forgiveness as you ask me now, and in future
I should have had no other lover but you. I fancied for a moment
that I might give myself that happiness for six months; you would
not have it; you insisted on knowing the means. Well, good
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: your place right away, and ask them to send her up; or shall I
run down and fetch her in my car?"
The doctor stared.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Hersheimmer. I thought you understood."
"Understood what?"
"That Miss Vandemeyer is no longer under my care."
CHAPTER XV
TUPPENCE RECEIVES A PROPOSAL
JULIUS sprang up.
"What?"
"I thought you were aware of that."
Secret Adversary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: and Valentine at the same time.
"I know what I am saying," continued the marchioness; "I
must hurry you, so that, as she has no mother, she may at
least have a grandmother to bless her marriage. I am all
that is left to her belonging to my poor Renee, whom you
have so soon forgotten, sir."
"Ah, madame," said Villefort, "you forget that I was obliged
to give a mother to my child."
"A stepmother is never a mother, sir. But this is not to the
purpose, -- our business concerns Valentine, let us leave
the dead in peace."
The Count of Monte Cristo |
