| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: bosom, a young lass extremely beautiful, and whose innocence was her
peril. My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was
constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear
to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced
and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I
began to think of it myself as very hazarded. I bethought me, if I had
a sister indeed, whether I would so expose her; then, judging the case
too problematical, I varied my question into this, whether I would so
trust Catriona in the hands of any other Christian being; the answer to
which made my face to burn. The more cause, since I had been entrapped
and had entrapped the girl into an undue situation, that I should
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: told her my name. She was about nineteen; and young for her age. She
blushed, and then looked at me cool, like I was the snow scene from
the "Two Orphans."
"I understand you are to be married to-night," I said.
"Correct," says she. "You got any objections?"
"Listen, sissy," I begins.
"My name is Miss Rebosa Redd," says she in a pained way.
"I know it," says I. "Now, Rebosa, I'm old enough to have owed money
to your father. And that old, specious, dressed-up, garbled, sea-sick
ptomaine prancing about avidiously like an irremediable turkey gobbler
with patent leather shoes on is my best friend. Why did you go and get
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: loved his sister Annie, but he hated the mild simmer
of feminine rancor to which even his father's pres-
ence failed to add a masculine flavor. Benny was
always leaving the room and allowing his sisters
"to fight it out."
Just after he left there was a tremendous peal
of thunder and a blue flash, and they all prayed
again, except Annie; who was occupied with her own
perplexities of life, and not at all afraid. She won-
dered, as she had wondered many times before, if
she could possibly be in the wrong, if she were spoil-
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