| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: And not purer some angel Grief carves o'er the tomb
Where Love lies, than the lady that kneel'd in that gloom.
She had put off her dress; and she look'd to his eyes
Like a young soul escaped from its earthly disguise;
Her fair neck and innocent shoulders were bare,
And over them rippled her soft golden hair;
Her simple and slender white bodice unlaced
Confined not one curve of her delicate waist.
As the light that, from water reflected, forever,
Trembles up through the tremulous reeds of a river,
So the beam of her beauty went trembling in him,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: we tell the Colonel's Wife how it happened." Mrs. Larkyn shut her
lips and shook her head, and vowed that the Colonel's Wife must
bear her punishment as best she could. Now Mrs. Larkyn was a
frivolous woman, in whom none would have suspected deep hate. So
Platte took no action, and came to believe gradually, from the
Colonel's silence, that the Colonel must have "run off the line"
somewhere that night, and, therefore, preferred to stand sentence
on the lesser count of rambling into other people's compounds out
of calling hours. Platte forgot about the watch business after a
while, and moved down-country with his regiment. Mrs. Larkyn went
home when her husband's tour of Indian service expired. She never
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: back. There must be, and there would be, a way out of it all, and
meanwhile her position, bad as it was, was not without, at least,
a certain compensation. There had been the Sparrow the other night
whom she had been able to save, and to-night there was Nicky Viner.
She could not be blind to that. Who knew! It might be for just
such very purposes that her life had been turned into these new
channels!
She looked around her sharply now. She had reached the lower
section of Sixth Avenue. Perlmer's office, according to the address
given, was still a little farther on. She walked briskly. It was
very different to-night, thanks to her veil! It had been horrible
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