| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: our second day, and already I have had to forgive you something.
Is this how you keep your promise of blind obedience?"
"What can I do, Marguerite? I love you too much and I am jealous
of the least of your thoughts. What you proposed to me just now
made me frantic with delight, but the mystery in its carrying out
hurts me dreadfully."
"Come, let us reason it out," she said, taking both my hands and
looking at me with a charming smile which it was impossible to
resist, "You love me, do you not? and you would gladly spend two
or three months alone with me in the country? I too should be
glad of this solitude a deux, and not only glad of it, but my
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: eye, but instead it was greeted by one of those ingenious
and specious puzzle problems that enthrall alike the
simpleton and the sage.
The labour leader tore off half of the page, provided
himself with table, pencil and paper and glued himself
to his puzzle.
Three hours later, after waiting vainly for him at the
appointed place, other more conservative leaders declared
and ruled in favour of arbitration, and the strike with its
attendant dangers was averted. Subsequent editions
of the paper referred, in coloured inks, to the clarion tone
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: again, it is no novelty to me, and there might be other things
which I liked still better: for instance, spending the afternoon
with you.
Then am I not to go?
I think not. Don't pull such a long face: but be a man, and make
up your mind to it, as the geese do to going barefoot.
But why may I not go?
Because I am not Madam How, but your Daddy.
What can that have to do with it?
If you asked Madam How, do you know what she would answer in a
moment, as civilly and kindly as could be? She would say--Oh yes,
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