| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: such an act of humility made him flush and pant, at the same time
that his consciousness was in certain directions too much alive not
to swallow - and not intensely to taste - every offered spoonful
of the revelation. It had been his odd fortune to blow upon the
deep waters, to make them surge and break in waves of strange
eloquence. But how couldn't he give out a passionate contradiction
of his host's last extravagance, how couldn't he enumerate to him
the parts of his work he loved, the splendid things he had found in
it, beyond the compass of any other writer of the day? St. George
listened a while, courteously; then he said, laying his hand on his
visitor's: "That's all very well; and if your idea's to do nothing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'It's most extraordinary,' said Mr. Nicholson. 'Do you mean
to say you have been out all night?'
'All night, as you say, sir. I have been to the telegraph
and the police office, and Mr. Macewen's. Oh, I had my hands
full,' said Alexander.
'Very irregular,' said the father. 'You think of no one but
yourself.'
'I do not see that I have much to gain in bringing back my
elder brother,' returned Alexander, shrewdly.
The answer pleased the old man; he smiled. 'Well, well, I
will go into this after breakfast,' said he.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: Crofts is going to stay here, and you are going to sit up every
night with him until four, recalling the incidents of your fiery
youth, it is clearly my mother's duty, as a prudent housekeeper,
to go up to the stores and order a barrel of whisky and a few
hundred siphons.
REV. S. I did not observe that Sir George drank excessively.
FRANK. You were not in a condition to, gov'nor.
REV. S. Do you mean to say that _I_--?
FRANK [calmly] I never saw a beneficed clergyman less sober. The
anecdotes you told about your past career were so awful that I
really dont think Praed would have passed the night under your
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