| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: spoken, he would be much surprised at so little pity for his
family being united to such a profound admiration of
himself."
The perspiration stood in large drops on Mazarin's brow.
"That admiration is, on the contrary, so great, so real,
madame," returned Mazarin, without noticing the change of
language offered to him by the queen, "that if the king,
Charles I. -- whom Heaven protect from evil! -- came into
France, I would offer him my house -- my own house; but,
alas! it would be but an unsafe retreat. Some day the people
will burn that house, as they burned that of the Marechal
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: sacrificed!
LADY WINDERMERE. [Leaning forward.] Don't say that.
LORD DARLINGTON. I do say it. I feel it - I know it.
[Enter PARKER C.]
PARKER. The men want to know if they are to put the carpets on the
terrace for to-night, my lady?
LADY WINDERMERE. You don't think it will rain, Lord Darlington, do
you?
LORD DARLINGTON. I won't hear of its raining on your birthday!
LADY WINDERMERE. Tell them to do it at once, Parker.
[Exit PARKER C.]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Pollock and a boar in his "Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel."
There the man was mounted, but alone.
[35] Lit. "force his heavy bulk along the shaft right up to the holder
of the boar-spear."
Nay, so tremendous is the animal's power, that a property which no one
ever would suspect belongs to him. Lay a few hairs upon the tusk of a
boar just dead, and they will shrivel up instantly,[36] so hot are
they, these tusks. Nay, while the creature is living, under fierce
excitement they will be all aglow; or else how comes it that though he
fail to gore the dogs, yet at the blow the fine hairs of their coats
are singed in flecks and patches?[37]
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