| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: thou step between me and these fellows? And how darest thou
offer thy knightly Castle of the Lea for a refuge to them?
Wilt thou make it a hiding place for the most renowned
outlaws in England?"
Then Sir Richard of the Lea raised his eyes to the King's face.
"Far be it from me," said he, "to do aught that could bring Your Majesty's
anger upon me. Yet, sooner would I face Your Majesty's wrath than suffer
aught of harm that I could stay to fall upon Robin Hood and his band;
for to them I owe life, honor, everything. Should I, then, desert him
in his hour of need?"
Ere the knight had done speaking, one of the mock friars that
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: million to his brother Charles! Good! I see you are
beginning to be angry. Here we are, by good luck, close to
my house, or rather to that of my friend, M. Monk."
"My dear D'Artagnan, you do not make me angry, you make me
sad; it is cruel, in fact, to see a man of your deserts out
of the position his services ought to have acquired; it
appears to me, my dear friend, that your name is as radiant
as the greatest names in war and diplomacy. Tell me if the
Luynes, the Ballegardes, and the Bassompierres have merited,
as we have, fortunes and honors? You are right, my friend, a
hundred times right."
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: hangings, and went over every article with the artless satisfaction of
a bride in the treasures of her wedding outfit.
"We begin by ruining ourselves," she said, in a half-joyous, half-
anxious tone.
"True! for all my back pay is there," replied Luigi. "I have mortgaged
it to a worthy fellow named Gigonnet."
"Why did you do so?" she said, in a tone of reproach, through which
could be heard her inward satisfaction. "Do you believe I should be
less happy in a garret? But," she added, "it is all charming, and--it
is ours!"
Luigi looked at her with such enthusiasm that she lowered her eyes.
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