| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The next intermission found him beside her in her box.
"I have so much wished to see you," she was saying.
"It has troubled me not a little to think that after the
service you rendered to both my husband and myself no adequate
explanation was ever made you of what must have seemed
ingratitude on our part in not taking the necessary steps to
prevent a repetition of the attacks upon us by those two men."
"You wrong me," replied Tarzan. "My thoughts of you
have been only the most pleasant. You must not feel that
any explanation is due me. Have they annoyed you further?"
"They never cease," she replied sadly. "I feel that I must
The Return of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: dress.
Chapter 8
However (continued Armand after a pause), while I knew myself to
be still in love with her, I felt more sure of myself, and part
of my desire to speak to Marguerite again was a wish to make her
see that I was stronger than she.
How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it
invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants!
I could not remain in the corridor, and I returned to my place in
the stalls, looking hastily around to see what box she was in.
She was in a ground-floor box, quite alone. She had changed, as I
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: all in each other's eyes, saw so much that there was no need of a
pretext for sounding it at last. "Your danger, your danger--!"
Her voice indeed trembled with it, and she could only for the
moment again leave it so.
During this moment he leaned back on the bench, meeting her in
silence and with a face that grew more strange. It grew so strange
that after a further instant she got straight up. She stood there
as if their talk were now over, and he just sat and watched her.
It was as if now--owing to the third person they had brought in--
they must be more careful; so that the most he could finally say
was: "That's where it is!"
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