| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: `A short cut to fortune!'"
Mrs. Waldeaux carefully averted her eyes from him. "You
may marry," she said, "and it may happen that your
wife also will have some little income----"
"Mother! Look at me!" he interrupted her sternly. "I
will never be dependent on my wife, so help me God! "
"No, George, no! Of course not. Don't speak so loud.
Only, I thought if she had a small sum of her own, she
would feel more comfortable, that's all."
In spite of his ill temper George threw himself into his
work with zeal. After a couple of months he came home
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: as those which appeal to sensuality by adorning the body as our
companions do were allowed. As well set traps along our public
streets, or worse than that.
CHAPTER X.
"That, then, was the way in which I was captured. I was in
love, as it is called; not only did she appear to me a perfect
being, but I considered myself a white blackbird. It is a
commonplace fact that there is no one so low in the world that he
cannot find some one viler than himself, and consequently puff
with pride and self-contentment. I was in that situation. I did
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: district into that portion occupied by shops and bazaars. Here
the number of flares was increased so that they appeared not
only at street intersections but midway between as well, and
there were many more people abroad. The shops were open
and lighted, for with the setting of the sun the intense heat of
the day had given place to a pleasant coolness. Here also the
number of lions, roaming loose through the thoroughfares,
increased, and also for the first time Tarzan noted the idiosyn-
crasies of the people.
Once he was nearly upset by a naked man running rapidly
through the street screaming at the top of his voice. And
Tarzan the Untamed |
