| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: the chief treasurer, who came forward with a golden tray in his
hand. Upon the tray was a purse of silk. "See," said the king,
"here is a purse, and in the purse are one hundred pieces of gold
money. But though that much may seem great to you, it is but
little of the true value of the purse. Its virtue lies in this:
that however much you may take from it, there will always be one
hundred pieces of gold money left in it. Now go; and while you
are enjoying the riches which I give you, I have only to ask you
to remember these are not the gifts of Fate, but of a mortal
man."
But all the while he was talking the beggar's head was spinning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: "As the old gentleman did not mean to stay, he was not asked for it.
The servant, by his orders no doubt, pretended not to speak French."
"And the letter which came so late to Abbe de Grancey?" said Rosalie.
"It was Monsieur Girardet, no doubt, who ought to have delivered it;
but Jerome says that poor Monsieur Girardet, who was much attached to
lawyer Savaron, was as much upset as he was. So he who came so
mysteriously, as Mademoiselle Galard says, is gone away just as
mysteriously."
After hearing this narrative, Mademoiselle de Watteville fell into a
brooding and absent mood, which everybody could see. It is useless to
say anything of the commotion that arose in Besancon on the
Albert Savarus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "How long have I been ill?" I asked to escape the subject which
I felt to be uncomfortable.
She lifted her beautiful eyes in search of words and began to
count upon her fingers.
"Two moon, one half moon, yes, ten week, counting Sabbath," she
answered triumphantly.
"Ten weeks!" I exclaimed.
"Yes, Humphrey, ten whole weeks and three days you first bad,
then mad. Oh!" she went on, breaking into the Orofenan tongue
which she spoke so perfectly, although it was not her own. That
language of hers I never learned, but I know she thought in it
When the World Shook |
