| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: to the gay music, and looking at the children in their prettiest
clothes, and at the nurses rolling the babies in the pretty
carriages with the beautiful pink, and white, and blue parasols over
the babies' heads.
Then Sister Helen Vincula said: ``Bessie Bell, I am going across the
long bridge to see some ladies and to tell them Good-bye, because we
are going away tomorrow.
And Sister Helen Vincula said: ``Now, will you stay right here on
this stone bench till I come back for you?''
Bessie Bell said, ``Yes, Sister Helen Vincula.''
So Sister Helen Vincula went away across the long bridge to see the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: have gratified maternal pride, and have shown yourself a sweet and
loving daughter. I, in my turn, can promise you that you will always
find a staunch friend in your mother. You smile? Alas! it too often
happens that a mother who has lived on excellent terms with her
daughter, as long as the daughter is a mere girl, comes to cross
purposes with her when they are both women together.
"It is your happiness which I want, so listen to my words. The love
which you now feel is that of a young girl, and is natural to us all,
for it is woman's destiny to cling to a man. Unhappily, pretty one,
there is but one man in the world for a woman! And sometimes this man,
whom fate has marked out for us, is not the one whom we, mistaking a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: should feel the need of them. The poorest could build such temples
of the spirit - could make them blaze with candles and smoke with
incense, make them flush with pictures and flowers. The cost, in
the common phrase, of keeping them up fell wholly on the generous
heart.
CHAPTER II.
HE had this year, on the eve of his anniversary, as happened, an
emotion not unconnected with that range of feeling. Walking home
at the close of a busy day he was arrested in the London street by
the particular effect of a shop-front that lighted the dull brown
air with its mercenary grin and before which several persons were
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