| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: arranged in his mind a little speech; but now it quite faded away.
He felt almost frightened. He had never been looked at in just
that way--with just that fixed, intense smile--by any woman;
and it perplexed and weighed upon him, now, that the woman
who was smiling so and who had instantly given him a vivid
sense of her possessing other unprecedented attributes,
was his own niece, the child of his own father's daughter.
The idea that his niece should be a German Baroness,
married "morganatically" to a Prince, had already given him much
to think about. Was it right, was it just, was it acceptable?
He always slept badly, and the night before he had lain awake
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: blushed.
"Yes," said the Padre, looking at the anchored barkentine, "I remember
how those things are."
For a while the vessel and its cargo and the landed men and various
business and conversations occupied them. But the freight for the mission
once seen to, there was not much else to detain them.
The barkentine was only a coaster like many others which had begun to
fill the sea a little more of late years, and presently host and guest
were riding homeward. Side by side they rode, companions to the eye, but
wide apart in mood; within the turbulent young figure of Gaston dwelt a
spirit that could not be more at ease, while revolt was steadily kindling
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: "Her husband? What husband?"
"Hasn't she then married Lord Iffield?"
"Vous-en-etes le?" cried my hostess. "Why he behaved like a
regular beast."
"How should I know? You never wrote me." Mrs. Meldrum hesitated,
covering me with what poor Flora called the particular organ. "No,
I didn't write you--I abstained on purpose. If I kept quiet I
thought you mightn't hear over there what had happened. If you
should hear I was afraid you would stir up Mr. Dawling."
"Stir him up?"
"Urge him to fly to the rescue; write out to him that there was
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