| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: is at my cost."
"Long life to Bucklaw!" shouted the men of the chase.
"And confusion to him that takes his share of the sport, and
leaves the hunters as dry as a drumhead," added another, by way
of corollary.
"The house of Ravenswood was ance a gude and an honourable house
in this land," said an old man; "but it's lost its credit this
day, and the Master has shown himself no better than a greedy
cullion."
And with this conclusion, which was unanimously agreed to by all
who heard it, they rushed tumultuously into the house of
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: Vaudeville Theatre were but bold enough to pay for a few newspaper
articles, that would secure fifty performances, and six thousand
francs for the author's rights, if only I were to cry it up in my
columns.
"To proceed:--
OR ROMAN REVENGE 219
The Duchess of Bracciano found
her glove. Adolphe, who had brought
her back to the orange grove, might
certainly have supposed that there
was some purpose in her forgetful-
The Muse of the Department |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: mine. Instead of my blue serge sailor suit and my ROBE DE NUIT and
kimona etc., it contained a checked gentleman's suit, a mussed
shirt and a cap. At first I was merely astonished. Then a sense of
loss overpowered me. I suffered. I was prostrated with grief. Not
that I cared a Rap for the clothes I'd lost, being most of them to
small and patched here and there. But I had lost the plot of my
Play. My Career was gone.
I was undone.
It may be asked what has this Recitle to do with the account of
meeting a Celebrity. I reply that it has a great deal to do with
it. A bare recitle of a meeting may be News, but it is not Art.
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