| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those
parts. 'I've delivered your cat,' he continued, 'from the hands,
or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper.'
'God bless you, sir!' cried the grateful old woman, ready to weep
for joy as she received her favourite from his arms.
'Take care of it,' said he, 'and don't let it go near the rabbit-
warren, for the gamekeeper swears he'll shoot it if he sees it
there again: he would have done so to-day, if I had not been in
time to stop him. I believe it is raining, Miss Grey,' added he,
more quietly, observing that I had put aside my work, and was
preparing to depart. 'Don't let me disturb you - I shan't stay two
Agnes Grey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: "But, monsieur," Sister Marthe broke in quickly, "we have no priest
here, and----"
"In that case you should be more careful and on your guard," he
answered gently, stretching out his hand for a breviary that lay on
the table. "I do not think that you know Latin, and----"
He stopped; for, at the sight of the great emotion in the faces of the
two poor nuns, he was afraid that he had gone too far. They were
trembling, and the tears stood in their eyes.
"Do not fear," he said frankly. "I know your names and the name of
your guest. Three days ago I heard of your distress and devotion to
the venerable Abbe de----"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: even in families where the great reason: namely, that children are
nuisances to adults, does not press very hardly, as, for instance, in
the houses of the very poor, who can send their children to play in
the streets, or the houses of the very rich, which are so large that
the children's quarters can be kept out of the parents' way like the
servants' quarters.
Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
What, then, is to be done? For the present, unfortunately, little
except propagating the conception of Children's Rights. Only the
achievement of economic equality through Socialism can make it
possible to deal thoroughly with the question from the point of view
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