| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: hand, in all simplicity and kindness, upon the skirt of his
cloak, as if to detain him. "You shall not part from us. My
father is powerful, he has friends taht are more so than himself;
do not go till you see what his gratitude will do for you.
Believe me, he is already labouring in your behalf with the
council."
"It may be so," said the Master, proudly; "yet it is not to your
father, Miss Ashton, but to my own exertions, that I ought to owe
success in the career on which I am about to enter. My
preparations are already made--a sword and a cloak, and a bold
heart and a determined hand."
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: view of his great burden of provisions they hailed him
with loud acclaim.
"Some artist!" cried the man. "And to think that I
doubted your ability to make a successful touch! For-
give me! You are the ne plus ultra, non est cumquidibus,
in hoc signo vinces, only and original kind of hand-out
compellers."
"How in the world did you do it?" asked the girl,
rapturously.
"Oh, it's easy when you know how," replied The Oska-
loosa Kid carelessly, as, with the help of the others, he
The Oakdale Affair |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: anxious to please. 'I play the fiddle a little as it is.'
'I know you do,' said Michael; 'but what's the fiddle--above all
as you play it? What you want is polyphonic music. And I'll tell
you what it is--since it's too late for you to buy a piano I'll
give you mine.'
'Thank you,' said the artist blankly. 'You will give me yours? I
am sure it's very good in you.'
'Yes, I'll give you mine,' continued Michael, 'for the inspector
of police to play on while his men are digging up your back
garden.' Pitman stared at him in pained amazement.
'No, I'm not insane,' Michael went on. 'I'm playful, but quite
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