| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: of the Unknowable. Then they looked at the child, lying there,
pink checked with the flush of the blood returning; and such a
sudden tenderness touched them as they had known long years
before, while together bending above the slumbering loveliness of
lost Conchita.
--"Que ojos!" murmured Feliu, as he turned away,--feigning hunger
... (He was not hungry; but his sight had grown a little dim, as
with a mist.) Que ojos! They were singular eyes, large, dark, and
wonderfully fringed. The child's hair was yellow--it was the
flash of it that had saved her; yet her eyes and brows were
beautifully black. She was comely, but with such a curious,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: "I did not sell Amalgamated Electric on Wednesday, and on Thursday a
doubt about the increased dividend began to be circulated. The stock,
nevertheless, after a forenoon of weakness, rallied. Moreover a check for
my first dividend came from the Pollyopolis Heat, Light, Power, Paving,
Pressing, and Packing Company."
"'What a number of things it does!' exclaimed Ethel, when I showed her
the company's check."
"'Yes,' I replied, and quoted Browning to her: ''Twenty-nine Distinct
damnations. One sure if the other fails.' Beverly's mother has a lot of
it.'"
"But Ethel did not smile. 'Richard,' she said, 'I do wish you had more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: feminine smiles which are more impenetrable than the words of a king.
"Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors."
"I am well, monsieur."
"Perhaps you were going out?"
"Not at all."
"You expected some one?"
"No one."
"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
introduced me into the sanctuary."
"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is
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