| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: and there abide until I give ye leave to come forth again. Go, I
say!"
"Father," said Lady Anne, in a breathless voice --she was as
white as death, and moistened her lips with her tongue before she
spoke--"father, thou wilt not do harm to this young man. Spare
him, I do beseech thee, for truly it was I who bade him come
hither. I know that he would not have come but at our bidding."
The Earl stamped his foot upon the gravel. "Did ye not hear me?"
said he, still pointing towards the house with his trembling
staff. "I bade ye go to your rooms. I will settle with this
fellow, I say, as I deem fitting."
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: His face was grey with pain, still he spoke as a hundred times I
had heard him speak at council, slowly and clearly. 'Alas! are you
also here, my friend Teule?' he said; 'I hoped that they had spared
you. See how these Spaniards keep faith. Malinche swore to treat
me with all honour; behold how he honours me, with hot coals for my
feet and pincers for my flesh. They think that we have buried
treasure, Teule, and would wring its secret from us. You know that
it is a lie. If we had treasure would we not give it gladly to our
conquerors, the god-born sons of Quetzal? You know that there is
nothing left except the ruins of our cities and the bones of our
dead.'
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: SECOND GENTLEMAN. Yes yes the Jew and the Broker.
CHARLES. Egad with all my Heart--Trip--bid the Gentlemen walk in--
tho' there's one of them a Stranger I can tell you----
TRIP. What Sir--would you chuse Mr. Premium to come up with----
FIRST GENTLEMAN. Yes--yes Mr. Premium certainly.
CARELESS. To be sure--Mr. Premium--by all means Charles,
let us give them some generous Burgundy, and perhaps they'll
grow conscientious----
CHARLES. O, Hang 'em--no--wine does but draw forth a man's natural
qualities; and to make them drink would only be to whet their Knavery.
Enter TRIP, SIR OLIVER, and MOSES
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