| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: "Well--well--what else did he say?"
"That he took the little duffer to New York and
raised him."
"RAISED him?"
She fairly screamed the words, springing to her
feet trembling from head to foot.
"Till he was big enough to kick into the streets to
shuffle for himself."
"The scoundrel said he was dead."
Her voice was far away and sank into dreamy
silence. She was living the hideous, lonely years
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: father was in distress; and she was just going to lean down and
speak to him, when one struggling dread at last gained the mastery
over every other in Silas, and he said, faintly--
"Eppie, my child, speak. I won't stand in your way. Thank Mr. and
Mrs. Cass."
Eppie took her hand from her father's head, and came forward a step.
Her cheeks were flushed, but not with shyness this time: the sense
that her father was in doubt and suffering banished that sort of
self-consciousness. She dropped a low curtsy, first to Mrs. Cass
and then to Mr. Cass, and said--
"Thank you, ma'am--thank you, sir. But I can't leave my father,
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: true works of arts that are not his own for the wretched daubs in the
collection at Ville d'Avray.
There are many mediocrities more aggressive and more mischievous than
that of Pierre Grassou, who is, moreover, anonymously benevolent and
truly obliging.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bridau, Joseph
The Purse
A Bachelor's Establishment
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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