| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: hear.
VAN ROUGH
How was this matter, Mr. Van Dumpling?
DIMPLE
Sir,--upon my honour,--all I know is, that I was
talking to this young lady, and this gentleman broke
in on us in a very extraordinary manner.
VAN ROUGH
Why, all this is nothing to the purpose; can you
explain it, Miss? [To Charlotte.]
Enter LETITIA through the back scene.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: Madame Hochon.
"We know what has happened," said the old lady, with her eyes full of
tears, "and I have come to entreat you not to leave the house to-
morrow morning without saying your prayers. Lift your soul to God!"
"Yes, madame," said Philippe, to whom old Hochon made a sign from
behind his wife's back.
"That is not all," said Agathe's godmother. "I stand in the place of
your poor mother, and I divest myself, for you, of a thing which I
hold most precious,--here," she went on, holding towards Philippe a
tooth, fastened upon a piece of black velvet embroidered in gold, to
which she had sewn a pair of green strings. Having shown it to him,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: every rustle of leaf to be the step of a lion. It was long before the
thrills and shivers stopped chasing over me, longer before I could decide
to lie down. But after a while the dead quiet of the forest persuaded me
that the night was far advanced, and I fell asleep.
The first thing in the morning I took my rifle and went out to where I had
left the carcass of the deer. It was gone. It had been dragged away. A dark
path on the pine-needles and grass, and small bushes pressed to the ground,
plainly marked the trail. But search as I might, I could not find the track
of the animal that had dragged off the deer. After following the trail for
a few rods, I decided to return to camp and cook breakfast before going any
farther. While I was at it I cut many thin slices of venison, and, after
The Young Forester |
