| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: you came to me - that my wonder might be answered. So I knew," she
went on; "and believed that, since the question held you too so
fast, as you told me that day, you too would see for yourself. And
when this morning I again saw I knew it would be because you had -
and also then, from the first moment, because you somehow wanted
me. HE seemed to tell me of that. So why," she strangely smiled,
"shouldn't I like him?"
It brought Spencer Brydon to his feet. "You 'like' that horror -
?"
"I COULD have liked him. And to me," she said, "he was no horror.
I had accepted him."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: quite dandy. Good-bye.
R. L. S.
CHAPTER IV
S. S. LUBECK, BETWEEN APIA AND SYDNEY,
JAN. 17TH, 1891.
MY DEAR COLVIN, - The Faamasino Sili, or Chief Justice, to
speak your low language, has arrived. I had ridden down with
Henry and Lafaele; the sun was down, the night was close at
hand, so we rode fast; just as I came to the corner of the
road before Apia, I heard a gun fire; and lo, there was a
great crowd at the end of the pier, and the troops out, and a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "Don't be silly, Alfred," snapped Zoie, really ashamed that
Alfred was making such an idiot of himself. "It's only the
nurse."
"Oh, that's it," said Alfred, with a wise nod of comprehension;
"the nurse, then she's in the joke too?" He glanced from one to
the other. They all nodded. "You're all in it," he exclaimed,
flattered to think that they had considered it necessary to
combine the efforts of so many of them to deceive him.
"Yes," assented Jimmy sadly, "we are all 'in it.' "
"Well, she's a great actress," decided Alfred, with the air of a
connoisseur.
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