| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: For nearly a week Miss Winchelsea was so angry at the failure
of Fanny as a go-between that she could not write to her. And then
she wrote less effusively, and in her letter she asked point-blank,
"Have you seen Mr. Snooks?" Fanny's letter was unexpectedly
satisfactory. "I HAVE seen Mr. Snooks," she wrote, and having once
named him she kept on about him; it was all Snooks--Snooks this and
Snooks that. He was to give a public lecture, said Fanny, among other
things. Yet Miss Winchelsea, after the first glow of gratification,
still found this letter a little unsatisfactory. Fanny did not report
Mr. Snooks as saying anything about Miss Winchelsea, nor as looking
a little white and worn, as he ought to have been doing. And behold!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: not above it. We may therefore reckon it at eight hundred thousand
francs. This house and garden are fully worth two hundred thousand. On
that estimate, Madame can convey by the marriage contract the titles
of that property to her daughter, reserving only a life interest in it
--for I conclude that Monsieur le comte could hardly wish to leave his
mother-in-law without means? Though Madame has certainly run through
her fortune, she is still able to make good that of her daughter, or
very nearly so."
"Women are most unfortunate in having no knowledge of business," said
Madame Evangelista. "Have I titles to property? and what are life-
interests?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: had better stay here for the night. One of them is wounded, and
ought to be given the best attention. But, of course, you will
see to that, lieutenant."
The young man blushed. This was the right kind of appreciation.
He wished his old classmates at the Point could hear how
implicitly this sweet girl relied on him.
"Certainly. And now, Miss Messiter, if there is nothing you wish,
I shall retire for the night. You may sleep with perfect
confidence."
"I am sure I may, lieutenant." She gave him a broadside of
trusting eyes full of admiration. "But perhaps you would like me
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