| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The old clock in the gloomy hall
Ticks on, from hour to hour;
And every time its measured call
Seems lingering slow and slower:
And, oh, how slow that keen-eyed star
Has tracked the chilly gray!
What, watching yet! how very far
The morning lies away!
Without your chamber door I stand;
Love, are you slumbering still?
My cold heart, underneath my hand,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: anything amusing, anything improvised. Bohemian restaurants lay
outside her experience; so d'Esgrignon got up a charming little party
at the Rocher de Cancale for her benefit, asked all the amiable scamps
whom she cultivated and sermonized, and there was a vast amount of
merriment, wit, and gaiety, and a corresponding bill to pay. That
supper led to others. And through it all Victurnien worshiped her as
an angel. Mme. de Maufrigneuse for him was still an angel, untouched
by any taint of earth; an angel at the Varietes, where she sat out the
half-obscene, vulgar farces, which made her laugh; an angel through
the cross-fire of highly-flavored jests and scandalous anecdotes,
which enlivened a stolen frolic; a languishing angel in the latticed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: in which revenge for her previous scorn was foremost and
predominant. Again he contemplated the possibility of her being
totally intractable, and refusing obstinately to play the part
assigned to her in the drama at Kenilworth.
"Alasco must then do his part," he said. "Sickness must serve
her Majesty as an excuse for not receiving the homage of Mrs.
Varney--ay, and a sore and wasting sickness it may prove, should
Elizabeth continue to cast so favourable an eye on my Lord of
Leicester. I will not forego the chance of being favourite of a
monarch for want of determined measures, should these be
necessary. Forward, good horse, forward--ambition and haughty
Kenilworth |
