| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "Good Heavens!" exclaimed Zoie with shocked surprise. "If Alfred
were to give a hundred dollars to a Baby's Home, I should suspect
him."
"Don't be silly!" snapped Aggie curtly. In spite of her firm
faith in Jimmy's innocence, she was undoubtedly annoyed by Zoie's
unpleasant suggestion.
There was an instant's pause, then putting disagreeable thoughts
from her mind, Aggie turned to Zoie with renewed enthusiasm.
"We must get down to business," she said, "we'll begin on the
baby's outfit at once."
"Its what?" queried Zoie.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: of the period, he is speaking as an Elizabethan manager and not
merely as an Elizabethan poet. At Cambridge, for instance, during
his day, a play of RICHARD THE THIRD was performed, in which the
actors were attired in real dresses of the time, procured from the
great collection of historical costume in the Tower, which was
always open to the inspection of managers, and sometimes placed at
their disposal. And I cannot help thinking that this performance
must have been far more artistic, as regards costume, than
Garrick's mounting of Shakespeare's own play on the subject, in
which he himself appeared in a nondescript fancy dress, and
everybody else in the costume of the time of George the Third,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: sparkled. Her nostrils fluttered. She felt indif-
ferent to everything but the certain pleasure of the
day. Rezanov was sure to be charming. What
mattered the morrow, and possible nights of doubt,
despair, hatred of life and wondering self-contempt?
Rezanov awaited the canoes in the prow of the
ship. He wore undress uniform and a cap instead
of the cocked hat of ceremony which had excited
their awe. He too tingled with a sense of youthful
gaiety and adventure. As he helped his guests up
the side of the vessel and listened to the delightful
Rezanov |
