| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: agitated as to receive the name of "The Caldron Linn." Beyond
this fearful abyss, the river kept raging and roaring on, until
lost to sight among impending precipices.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Gloomy Council.-Exploring Parties- Discouraging Reports-
Disastrous Experiment.- Detachments in Quest of Succor.- Caches,
How Made. -Return of One of the Detachments- Unsuccessful.-
Further Disappointments- The Devil's Scuttle Hole
MR. HUNT and his companions encamped upon the borders of the
Caldron Linn, and held gloomy counsel as to their future course.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: sensitive as we are, not so finely strung. It makes a great
barrier often between husband and wife, does it not? But I would
so much like to know what was the wrong thing Mr. Allonby did.
MRS. ALLONBY. Well, I will tell you, if you solemnly promise to
tell everybody else.
LADY STUTFIELD. Thank you, thank you. I will make a point of
repeating it.
MRS. ALLONBY. When Ernest and I were engaged, he swore to me
positively on his knees that he had never loved any one before in
the whole course of his life. I was very young at the time, so I
didn't believe him, I needn't tell you. Unfortunately, however, I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: honour with him as with the generous elephant with whom we have
already compared him, who, being overtasked, broke his skull
through the desperate exertions which he made to discharge his
duty, when he perceived they were bringing up another to his
assistance.
The village which they now approached had frequently
afforded the distressed butler resources upon similar
emergencies; but his relations with it had been of late much
altered.
It was a little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek
formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea, and was
The Bride of Lammermoor |
