| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: fact did not escape Butzow's notice.
"If you are content to take the word of the servants of a
traitor and a would-be regicide," he cried, "I am not. There
has been no proof advanced that this man is not the king.
In so far as I am concerned he is the king, nor ever do I
expect to serve another more worthy of the title.
"If Peter of Blentz has real proof--not the testimony of
his own faction--that Leopold of Lutha is dead, let him
bring it forward before noon today, for at noon we shall
crown a king in the cathedral at Lustadt, and I for one
pray to God that it may be he who has led us in battle
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: them. Moreover, the desire which they had to show their
respect with the least possible delay to Madame and her
illustrious mother induced them to brave the sea, which is
very tempestuous to-day, even for sailors. These gentlemen,
however, whom I recommend as an example for my officers to
follow, can hardly be so for these ladies."
Madame glanced at the Comte de Guiche, and perceived that
his face was burning with confusion. This look had escaped
Buckingham, who had eyes for nothing but Norfolk, of whom he
was evidently very jealous; he seemed anxious to remove the
princesses from the deck of a vessel where the admiral
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink;
Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off,
Or else you famish,--that's a threefold death.
This speak I, lords, to let you understand,
If case some one of you would fly from us,
That there's no hop'd-for mercy with the brothers
More than with ruthless waves, with sands, and rocks.
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'T were childish weakness to lament or fear.
PRINCE.
Methinks, a woman of this valiant spirit
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