| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: tried. Whereupon thus came out of me the not very politic ejaculation:
"Ah! I was expecting that!"
"You have at times a great deal of discretion, too!" says
Prestongrange.
"And what is my lord pleased to mean by that?" I asked.
"I was just marvelling", he replied, "that being so clever as to draw
these inferences, you should not be clever enough to keep them to
yourself. But I think you would like to hear the details of the
affair. I have received two versions: and the least official is the
more full and far the more entertaining, being from the lively pen of
my eldest daughter. 'Here is all the town bizzing with a fine piece of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: character, and I found at length that it came from some one leading
flocks afield to the note of a rural horn. The narrow street of
Lestampes stood full of sheep, from wall to wall - black sheep and
white, bleating with one accord like the birds in spring, and each
one accompanying himself upon the sheep-bell round his neck. It
made a pathetic concert, all in treble. A little higher, and I
passed a pair of men in a tree with pruning-hooks, and one of them
was singing the music of a BOURREE. Still further, and when I was
already threading the birches, the crowing of cocks came cheerfully
up to my ears, and along with that the voice of a flute discoursing
a deliberate and plaintive air from one of the upland villages. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Makes the soul of the Swiss die away,
Has a spell more adored and heartbreaking
Than, for me, in that blighted heath lay.
The spirit which bent 'neath its power,
How it longed--how it burned to be free!
If I could have wept in that hour,
Those tears had been heaven to me.
Well--well; the sad minutes are moving,
Though loaded with trouble and pain;
And some time the loved and the loving
Shall meet on the mountains again!
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