| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: surprise at his boldness seemed to be unmingled with resentment,
while a trifling accident happened which attracted her attention
towards him yet more strongly. The night had been rainy, and
just where the young gentleman stood a small quantity of mud
interrupted the Queen's passage. As she hesitated to pass on,
the gallant, throwing his cloak from his shoulders, laid it on
the miry spot, so as to ensure her stepping over it dry-shod.
Elizabeth looked at the young man, who accompanied this act of
devoted courtesy with a profound reverence, and a blush that
overspread his whole countenance. The Queen was confused, and
blushed in her turn, nodded her head, hastily passed on, and
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau
The Commission in Lunacy
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment
The Secrets of a Princess
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: From suffering and corruption free,
Restored into the Deity."
"Well hast thou spoken, sweet, trustful child!
And wiser than thy sire;
And worldly tempests, raging wild,
Shall strengthen thy desire--
Thy fervent hope, through storm and foam,
Through wind and ocean's roar,
To reach, at last, the eternal home,
The steadfast, changeless shore!"
STARS.
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