| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: homes of luxury then hadn't so much to give. "I find out
everything."
Mrs. Jordan, at bottom a very meek person, was visibly struck. "I
see. You do 'have' them."
"Oh I don't care! Much good it does me!"
Mrs. Jordan after an instant recovered her superiority. "No--it
doesn't lead to much." Her own initiations so clearly did. Still-
-after all; and she was not jealous: "There must be a charm."
"In seeing them?" At this the girl suddenly let herself go. "I
hate them. There's that charm!"
Mrs. Jordan gaped again. "The REAL 'smarts'?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: able curiosity of seeing the bottom of everything;--
why, to be honest, I confess I saw the blooming
cherub of a consequence smiling in its angelic mother's
arms, about ten months afterwards.
JONATHAN
Well, if I follow all your plans, make them six bows,
and all that, shall I have such little cherubim conse-
quences?
JESSAMY
Undoubtedly.--What are you musing upon?
JONATHAN
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: my kind father!"
"Oh! my Ginevra, my own Ginevra!" replied Piombo, whose anger melted
under this caress like snow beneath the rays of the sun.
"It was time you ceased," said the baroness, in a trembling voice.
"Poor mother!"
"Ah! Ginevretta! mia bella Ginevra!"
And the father played with his daughter as though she were a child of
six. He amused himself by releasing the waving volume of her hair, by
dandling her on his knee; there was something of madness in these
expressions of his love. Presently his daughter scolded while kissing
him, and tried, by jesting, to obtain admission for Luigi; but her
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