| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: particularly patient cripple. And apparently there was an end to the
story.
"For goodness' sake," Sara Lee would exclaim despairingly; "so they
heard you! That isn't all, is it?"
"It was almost all," he would say with his boyish smile.
"And they shot at you?"
"Even better. They shot me. That was this one." And he would point to
his arm.
More silence, more cutting, a gathering exasperation on Sara Lee's part.
"Are you going on or not?"
"Then I pretended to be one of them, mademoiselle. I speak German as
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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: festin sans montrer un cadavre e ses hotes? Enfin, qui est-ce? Je
ne veux pas le regarder.
PREMIER SOLDAT. C'est notre capitaine, Seigneur. C'est le jeune
Syrien que vous avez fait capitaine il y a trois jours seulement.
HERODE. Je n'ai donne aucun ordre de le tuer.
SECOND SOLDAT. Il s'est tue lui-meme, Seigneur.
HERODE. Pourquoi? Je l'ai fait capitaine!
SECOND SOLDAT. Nous ne savons pas, Seigneur. Mais il s'est tue
lui-meme.
HERODE. Cela me semble etrange. Je pensais qu'il n'y avait que les
philosophes romains qui se tuaient. N'est-ce pas, Tigellin, que les
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: each one would take in the discussion. The Duke of
course would be their principal theme; though the
appearance in Fifth Avenue of a golden-haired lady in a
small canary-coloured brougham with a pair of black
cobs (for which Beaufort was generally thought
responsible) would also doubtless be thoroughly gone
into. Such "women" (as they were called) were few in
New York, those driving their own carriages still fewer,
and the appearance of Miss Fanny Ring in Fifth Avenue
at the fashionable hour had profoundly agitated
society. Only the day before, her carriage had passed
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