| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: her away from me. What shall I do? For Heaven's sake, give me some
advice!"
The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of
Jeannie Deans, of whom I have already told you, and who, up to the
present moment hadn't uttered a word, shrugged his shoulders, as he
looked at me and said:--
"Idiot! why did you ask him if he came from Beauvais?"
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Taillefer, Jean-Frederic
The Firm of Nucingen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: career, a very staggering and grave consideration. Every
beast, as he says, clings bitterly to a whole skin. If
everything is lost, and even honour, life still remains; nay,
and it becomes, like the ewe lamb in Nathan's parable, as
dear as all the rest. "Do you fancy," he asks, in a lively
ballad, "that I had not enough philosophy under my hood to
cry out: 'I appeal'? If I had made any bones about the
matter, I should have been planted upright in the fields, the
St, Denis Road" - Montfaucon being on the way to St. Denis.
An appeal to Parliament, as we saw in the case of Colin de
Cayeux, did not necessarily lead to an acquittal or a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: you mean, was it Mr. Hyde?--why, yes, I think it was!" You see,
it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light
way with it; and then who else could have got in by the laboratory
door? You have not forgot, sir, that at the time of the murder he
had still the key with him? But that's not all. I don't know,
Mr. Utterson, if you ever met this Mr. Hyde?"
"Yes," said the lawyer, "I once spoke with him."
"Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was
something queer about that gentleman--something that gave a man
a turn--I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this:
that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin."
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
