| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: worth the waste of a moment. But surely, Com-
mandante, in your excitement at this perfectly nat-
ural issue you are misrepresenting yourself. I do
not believe, devout Catholic as you are, that your
soul is steeped in fanaticism. You are known far
and wide as the first and most intelligent of His
Catholic Majesty's subjects in New Spain. When
you have my word of honor that your daughter's
faith shall never be disturbed, it is impossible you
should believe that marriage with me would ruin
her chances of happiness in the next world. But I
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "My dear, I'm- "
"You don't know what I've been through."
This tearfully.
"Don't I?" I said wearily.
CHAPTER VIII
THE BUSY BEERS
"They never sting some people," said Daphne.
"Perhaps," said I, "perhaps that is because they never get the
chance. It doesn't offer, as they say."
"Oh, yes, they do. They simply don't sting them."
"'M. During Lent, I suppose?" I murmured drowsily. A May
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: disease is a companion with whom one can live. Just as in every
household, one gets along at the cost of mutual concessions,
that's all. Come, sir, I tell you again, there is nothing about
it that is not perfectly ordinary, perfectly natural, perfectly
common; it is an accident which can happen to any one. It is a
great mistake that people speak if this as the 'French Disease,'
for there is none which is more universal. Under the picture of
this disease, addressing myself to those who follow the oldest
profession in the world, I would write the famous phrase: 'Here
is your master. It is, it was, or it must be.'"
George was putting the prescription into the outside pocket of
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