| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: to the test my very real interest in her must be held responsible.
Her blush died away, but a pair of still prettier tears glistened
in its track. "If you ever hear such a thing said again you can
say it's a horrid lie!" I had brought on a commotion deeper than
any I was prepared for; but it was explained in some degree by the
next words she uttered: "I'm happy to say there's nothing the
matter with any part of me whatever, not the least little thing!"
She spoke with her habitual complacency, with triumphant assurance;
she smiled again, and I could see how she wished that she hadn't so
taken me up. She turned it off with a laugh. "I've good eyes,
good teeth, a good digestion and a good temper. I'm sound of wind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: Feliu re-appeared at the inner door: at a sign, he approached
cautiously, without noise, and looked.
--"She can talk," whispered Carmen in Spanish: "she called her
mother"--ha llamado a su madre.
--"Y Dios tambien la ha llamado," responded Feliu, with rude
pathos;--"And God also called her."
--"But the Virgin sent us the child, Feliu,--sent us the child
for Concha's sake."
He did not answer at once; he seemed to be thinking very
deeply;--Carmen anxiously scanned his impassive face.
--"Who knows?" he answered, at last;--"who knows? Perhaps she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: Wood. Sir Richard pointed to the swells of beautiful, dappled
Dallington, that showed like a woodcock's breast up the valley.
'Ye know the forest?' said he.
'You ought to see the bluebells there in Spring!' said Una.
'I have seen,' said Sir Richard, gazing, and stretched out his
hand. 'Hugh's work and mine was first to move the deer gently
from all parts into Dallington yonder, and there to hold them till
the King came. Next, we must choose some three hundred
beaters to drive the deer to the stands within bowshot of the King.
Here was our trouble! In the mellay of a deer-drive a Saxon
peasant and a Norman King may come over-close to each other.
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