| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: - a little out of malice if you like - but really to ask if a diamond
brooch of mine had been found. That was the origin of the whole
thing.
LORD GORING. A diamond snake-brooch with a ruby?
MRS. CHEVELEY. Yes. How do you know?
LORD GORING. Because it is found. In point of fact, I found it
myself, and stupidly forgot to tell the butler anything about it as I
was leaving. [Goes over to the writing-table and pulls out the
drawers.] It is in this drawer. No, that one. This is the brooch,
isn't it? [Holds up the brooch.]
MRS. CHEVELEY. Yes. I am so glad to get it back. It was . . a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: and soon be in the garden. But the voices within him still talked all the
while as he sat watching the sails when they passed between the
headlands. Their words, falling for ever the same way, beat his spirit
sore, like blows upon flesh already bruised. If he could only change what
they said, he would rest.
"Has the Padre any mall for Santa Barbara?" asked Felipe. "The ship
bound southward should be here to-morrow."
"I will attend to it," said the priest, not moving. And Felipe stole
away.
At Felipe's words the voices had stopped, as a clock finishes striking.
Silence, strained like expectation, filled the Padre's soul. But in place
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: existing circumstances. To the official despatch was added a private
letter, in which, without explaining the mission of Mademoiselle de
Verneuil, the minister informed him that the affair was entirely
outside of the war, and not to interfere with any military operations.
The duty of the commanders, he said, was limited to giving assistance
to that honorable /citoyenne/, if occasion arose. Learning from his
scouts that the movements of the Chouans all tended towards a
concentration of their forces in the neighborhood of Fougeres, Hulot
secretly and with forced marches brought two battalions of his brigade
into the town. The nation's danger, his hatred of aristocracy, whose
partisans threatened to convulse so large a section of country, his
The Chouans |
