| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: getting of children. Here they come will tell you more: for my
part, I only hear your son was run away.
[Exit.]
[Enter HELENA and the two Gentlemen.]
SECOND GENTLEMAN.
Save you, good madam.
HELENA.
Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Do not say so.
COUNTESS.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: did not return. At half-past nine Arabella herself went out,
first proceeding to an outlying district near the river where her
father lived, and had opened a small and precarious pork-shop lately.
"Well," she said to him, "for all your rowing me that night,
I've called in, for I have something to tell you. I think I
shall get married and settled again. Only you must help me:
and you can do no less, after what I've stood 'ee."
"I'll do anything to get thee off my hands!"
"Very well. I am now going to look for my young man.
He's on the loose I'm afraid, and I must get him home.
All I want you to do to-night is not to fasten the door, in case I
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: and, like all dwellers in the wilderness, was daily tempted. The
noble lord had hopes, it may be, of despatching yet another monk
before his term of life was out.
But whether because the Abbot was every whit as clever as Don
Juan himself, or Dona Elvira possessed more discretion or more
virtue than Spanish wives are usually credited with, Don Juan was
compelled to spend his declining years beneath his own roof, with
no more scandal under it than if he had been an ancient country
parson. Occasionally he would take wife and son to task for
negligence in the duties of religion, peremptorily insisting that
they should carry out to the letter the obligations imposed upon
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