| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Amelia privately wished that she lived near enough to know if
Harry Lawton did call. She, as well as Mrs. Joseph Glynn, would
have enjoyed watching out and knowing something of the village
happenings, but the Lancaster house was situated so far from the
road, behind its grove of trees, that nothing whatever could be
seen.
"I doubt if Eudora tells, if he does call--that is, not unless
something definite happens," said Anna.
"No," remarked Amelia, sadly. "Eudora is a dear, but she is very
silent with regard to her own affairs."
"She ought to be," said Sophia, with her married authority. She
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: imaginer des choses qui n'existent pas, et quand on les porte dans
la main on peut rendre les femmes steriles. Ce sont des tresors de
grande valeur. Ce sont des tresors sans prix. Et ce n'est pas
tout. Dans un coffret d'ebene j'ai deux coupes d'ambre qui
ressemblent e des pommes d'or. Si un ennemi verse du poison dans
ces coupes elles deviennent comme des pommes d'argent. Dans un
coffret incruste d'ambre j'ai des sandales incrustees de verre.
J'ai des manteaux qui viennent du pays des Seres et des bracelets
garnis d'escarboucles et de jade qui viennent de la ville
d'Euphrate. . . Enfin, que veux-tu, Salome? Dis-moi ce que tu
desires et je te le donnerai. Je te donnerai tout ce que tu
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: On that occasion the violence of the emotion was
followed by a most paternal and complacent re-
covery.
"Don't alarm yourself, my dear," he said a lit-
tle cunningly: "the sea can't keep him. He does
not belong to it. None of us Hagberds ever did
belong to it. Look at me; I didn't get drowned.
Moreover, he isn't a sailor at all; and if he is not a
sailor he's bound to come back. There's nothing
to prevent him coming back. . . ."
His eyes began to wander.
To-morrow |
