| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: among the sailors. And so he had played his move for Rose, even as
Eustace had, and lost her: but not as Eustace had.
CHAPTER V
CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
"It was among the ways of good Queen Bess,
Who ruled as well as ever mortal can, sir,
When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess,
She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir."
West Country Song.
The next morning Amyas Leigh was not to be found. Not that he had
gone out to drown himself in despair, or even to bemoan himself
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: and she did not wish to go on accepting benefits from a man whom
she was deceiving. The duke did not return for a week; it was all
he could do, and on the eighth day he came to beg Marguerite to
let him still visit her, promising that he would take her as she
was, so long as he might see her, and swearing that he would
never utter a reproach against her, not though he were to die of
it.
This, then, was the state of things three months after
Marguerite's return; that is to say, in November or December,
1842.
Chapter 3
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: Undeterred by the stifling vapour, the knight threw himself from
his horse and entered the cavern, which afforded small appearance
of accommodation. The cell was divided into two parts, in the
outward of which were an altar of stone and a crucifix made of
reeds: this served the anchorite for his chapel. On one side of
this outward cave the Christian knight, though not without
scruple, arising from religious reverence to the objects around,
fastened up his horse, and arranged him for the night, in
imitation of the Saracen, who gave him to understand that such
was the custom of the place. The hermit, meanwhile, was busied
putting his inner apartment in order to receive his guests, and
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