| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: however, already formed the plan of going to the
Stadtholder, to ask from him for my father the appointment
of jailer of Loewestein, when your housekeeper brought me
your letter. Oh, how we wept together! But your letter only
confirmed me the more in my resolution. I then left for
Leyden, and the rest you know."
"What, my dear Rosa, you thought, even before receiving my
letter, of coming to meet me again?"
"If I thought of it," said Rosa, allowing her love to get
the better of her bashfulness, "I thought of nothing else."
And, saying these words, Rosa looked so exceedingly pretty,
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: whole man and subjugating all his faculties to its own unique end,
may conduct him whom it spurs and drives, into all sorts of
adventures, to the brink of unfathomable dangers, to the limits of
folly, and madness, and death.
To the man then of a silence made only more impressive by the
inarticulate thunders and mutters of the great seas, an utter
stranger to the clatter of tongues, there comes the muscular little
Fyne, the most marked representative of that mankind whose voice is
so strange to him, the husband of his sister, a personality standing
out from the misty and remote multitude. He comes and throws at him
more talk than he had ever heard boomed out in an hour, and
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: guarded and demure,
"Yes, Frank came over this morning, just to ask us how we did."
They hurried on, and were speedily at Randalls.--"Well, my dear,"
said he, as they entered the room--"I have brought her, and now
I hope you will soon be better. I shall leave you together.
There is no use in delay. I shall not be far off, if you want me."--
And Emma distinctly heard him add, in a lower tone, before he
quitted the room,--"I have been as good as my word. She has not the
least idea."
Mrs. Weston was looking so ill, and had an air of so much perturbation,
that Emma's uneasiness increased; and the moment they were alone,
Emma |
