| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: for me to come back to Bond Street and spend a week. She had some
fine marking to do, she wrote. While there I noticed a restlessness
in her which I had never before observed, and conferred with Mrs.
Roll on the matter. "She do be awake nights a deal, and that's the
reason," Mrs. Roll said. Her manner was the same in other respects.
She said she would not give me any thing for my wedding outfit, but
she paid my fare from Waterbury and back.
She could not spare me to go out, she told Mr. Uxbridge, and in
consequence I saw little of him while there.
In November we were married. Aunt Eliza was not at the wedding,
which was a quiet one. Mr. Uxbridge desired me to remain in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Quibus de rebus Caesar a Crasso certior factus, quod ipse aberat
longius, naves interim longas aedificari in flumine Ligeri, quod influit
in Oceanum, remiges ex provincia institui, nautas gubernatoresque
comparari iubet. His rebus celeriter administratis ipse, cum primum per
anni tempus potuit, ad exercitum contendit. Veneti reliquaeque item
civitates cognito Caesaris adventu [certiores facti], simul quod quantum
in se facinus admisissent intellegebant, [legatos, quod nomen ad omnes
nationes sanctum inviolatumque semper fuisset, retentos ab se et in
vincula coniectos,] pro magnitudine periculi bellum parare et maxime ea
quae ad usum navium pertinent providere instituunt, boc maiore spe quod
multum natura loci confidebant. Pedestria esse itinera concisa
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: of whom people said that she "ought to be painted."
Her parents had been continental wanderers, and after
a roaming babyhood she had lost them both, and been
taken in charge by her aunt, Medora Manson, also a
wanderer, who was herself returning to New York to
"settle down."
Poor Medora, repeatedly widowed, was always coming
home to settle down (each time in a less expensive
house), and bringing with her a new husband or an
adopted child; but after a few months she invariably
parted from her husband or quarrelled with her ward,
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