| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: 'You!' she cried, in a voice which pierced my heart. 'You are
M. de Berault? It is impossible!' But, glancing askance at her
--I could not face her I saw that the blood had left her cheeks.
'Yes, Mademoiselle,' I answered in a low tone. 'De Barthe was my
mother's name. When I came here, a stranger, I took it that I
might not be known; that I might again speak to a good woman, and
not see her shrink. That, and--but why trouble you with all
this?' I continued rebelling, against her silence, her turned
shoulder, her averted face. 'You asked me, Mademoiselle, how I
could take a blow and let the striker go. I have answered. It
is the one privilege M. de Berault possesses.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: terrified of this place and especially of its master, the old
dwarf, and felt sure that something terrible was going to happen
to her. Anscombe did his best to calm her, and I also told her
she had nothing to fear.
"If there is nothing to fear, Mr. Quatermain," she answered,
turning on me, "why do you look so frightened yourself? By your
face you might have seen a ghost."
This sudden and singularly accurate thrust, for after all I had
seen something that looked very like a ghost, startled me, and
before I could invent any soothing and appropriate fib, Nombe
appeared, saying that she had come to lead Heda to her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: "Come with us"; but he said: "I am a Beast." Later on, some
Beasts who were passing underneath him looked up and said: "Come
with us"; but he said: "I am a Bird." Luckily at the last moment
peace was made, and no battle took place, so the Bat came to the
Birds and wished to join in the rejoicings, but they all turned
against him and he had to fly away. He then went to the Beasts,
but soon had to beat a retreat, or else they would have torn him
to pieces. "Ah," said the Bat, "I see now,
"He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."
The Hart and the Hunter
The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble
Aesop's Fables |
