| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: years.
Thirty guineas' worth of Mechlin at his throat was drenched, empurpled
and ruined beyond redemption, and on the breast of his blue satin coat
a dark patch was spreading like a stain of blood.
Richard Westmacott, short, sturdy, and fair-complexioned to the point
of insipidity, watched him sullenly out of pale eyes, and waited. It
was Lord Gervase who broke at last the silence - broke it with an
oath, a thing unusual in one whose nature was almost woman-mild.
"As God's my life!" he spluttered wrathfully, glowering at Richard.
"To have this happen in my house! The young fool shall make apology!"
"With his dying breath," sneered Trenchard, and the old rake's words,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "how can you have learnt it? It was after the departure of
the queen, and in the presence of one person only, that the
king ---- "
"You perceive that I do know it; is not that sufficient?
Well, go on, monsieur, the money the king has required you
to supply ---- "
"You understand, marquise, that I have been obliged to
procure it, then to get it counted, afterwards registered --
altogether a long affair. Since Monsieur de Mazarin's death,
financial affairs occasion some little fatigue and
embarrassment. My administration is somewhat overtaxed, and
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: there is no answer, I suppose. He conforms to type. Enough! But
to me, he was the embodiment of evil, just as you have always been
the embodiment of good; he was the embodiment of sin, just as you
are the embodiment of purity. I had enthroned you so high, Aline,
so high, and yet no higher than your place. Could I, then, suffer
that you should be dragged down by ambition, could I suffer the
evil I detested to mate with the good I loved? What could have
come of it but your own damnation, as I told you that day at
Gavrillac? Because of that my detestation of him became a personal,
active thing. I resolved to save you at all costs from a fate so
horrible. Had you been able to tell me that you loved him it would
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