| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: into the Catholic church."
"In spite of which you don't think she'll be saved?"
"SHE thinks she will--that's all I can tell you. There's no doubt
that when once she brought herself to accept her real remedy, as
she calls it, she began to enjoy a relief that she had never known.
That feeling, very new and in spite of what she pays for it most
refreshing, has given her something to hold on by, begotten in her
foolish little mind a belief that, as she says, she's on the mend
and that in the course of time, if she leads a tremendously healthy
life, she'll be able to take off her muzzle and become as dangerous
again as ever. It keeps her going."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: and stimulating his passion with the mischievous pleasure of a woman
who is free and in love; but she had suddenly enveloped herself in
maidenly modesty, after she had heard Sarrasine relate an incident
which illustrated the extreme violence of his temper. When the supper
became a debauch, the guests began to sing, inspired by the Peralta
and the Pedro-Ximenes. There were fascinating duets, Calabrian
ballads, Spanish /sequidillas/, and Neapolitan /canzonettes/.
Drunkenness was in all eyes, in the music, in the hearts and voices of
the guests. There was a sudden overflow of bewitching vivacity, of
cordial unconstraint, of Italian good nature, of which no words can
convey an idea to those who know only the evening parties of Paris,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: right here for y'u till y'u come back."
"We'll all go up together," decided Nora, and honors were easy.
In the pleasant moonlight they sauntered back, two of them still
engaged in lively badinage. while the third played chorus with
appreciative little giggles and murmurs of "Oh, Mr. Halliday!"
and "You know you're just flattering me, Mr. McWilliams."
If they had not been so absorbed in their gay foolishness the two
men might not have walked so innocently into the trap waiting for
them at their journey's end. As it was, the first intimation they
had of anything unusual was a stern command to surrender.
"Throw up your hands. Quick, you blank fools!"
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