| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: but would fain shine a countess amongst countesses."
"Very natural, very right," answered Varney; "but what have I to
do with that?--she may shine through horn or through crystal at
my lord's pleasure, I have nought to say against it."
"She deems that you have an oar upon that side of the boat,
Master Varney," replied Foster, "and that you can pull it or no,
at your good pleasure. In a word, she ascribes the secrecy and
obscurity in which she is kept to your secret counsel to my lord,
and to my strict agency; and so she loves us both as a sentenced
man loves his judge and his jailor."
"She must love us better ere she leave this place, Anthony,"
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: terrace, and she is so delicate.
HOPPER. Awfully sorry, Duchess. We went out for a moment and then
got chatting together.
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. [C.] Ah, about dear Australia, I suppose?
HOPPER. Yes!
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. Agatha, darling! [Beckons her over.]
LADY AGATHA. Yes, mamma!
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. [Aside.] Did Mr. Hopper definitely -
LADY AGATHA. Yes, mamma.
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. And what answer did you give him, dear child?
LADY AGATHA. Yes, mamma.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: being warned to refrain from desecrating this particular room.
Or could it be that within lay the secret to the treasure stores?
At any rate, the very fact that the strange, invisible
guardians of this weird place had some reason for wishing him
not to enter this particular chamber was sufficient to treble
Tarzan's desire to do so, and though the shrieking was repeated
continuously, he kept his shoulder to the door until it gave
before his giant strength to swing open upon creaking wooden hinges.
Within all was black as the tomb. There was no window
to let in the faintest ray of light, and as the corridor upon
which it opened was itself in semi-darkness, even the open door
The Return of Tarzan |
