| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: since--" He faltered. He stopped. Their faces were too much for him.
"Even so," said Josephine.
And Auntie Con looked.
Cyril put down his teacup. "Wait a bit," he cried. "Wait a bit, Aunt
Josephine. What am I thinking of?"
He looked up. They were beginning to brighten. Cyril slapped his knee.
"Of course," he said, "it was meringues. How could I have forgotten? Yes,
Aunt Josephine, you're perfectly right. Father's most frightfully keen on
meringues."
They didn't only beam. Aunt Josephine went scarlet with pleasure; Auntie
Con gave a deep, deep sigh.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: and looked up at those letters, and when he had read them had
turned and gone away again. But the beggar neither turned nor
went away; because why, he could neither read nor write a word,
and so the blood-red letters had no fear for him. Up he marched
to the brazen gate, as boldly as though it had been a kitchen
door, and rap! tap! tap! he knocked upon it. He waited awhile,
but nobody came. Rap! tap! tap! he knocked again; and then, after
a little while, for the third time--Rap! tap! tap! Then instantly
the gate swung open and he entered. So soon as he had crossed the
threshold it was banged to behind him again, just as the garden
gate had been when the king had first sent for him. He found
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: chiefs in the 23rd article of their complaint: "Some of the chiefs
fled to the bush from fear of being reported, fear of German men-
of-war, constantly being accused, etc., and Brandeis commanded that
they were to be shot on sight. This act was carried out by
Brandeis on the 31st day of August, 1888. After this we evaded
these laws; we could not stand them; our patience was worn out with
the constant wickedness of Tamasese and Brandeis. We were tired
out and could stand no longer the acts of these two men."
So through an ill-timed skirmish, two severed heads, and a dead
body, the rule of Brandeis came to a sudden end. We shall see him
a while longer fighting for existence in a losing battle; but his
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