| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "Oh, no, on the contrary, I assure you," Osric Dane energetically
intervened.
"--to others," Mrs. Ballinger finished firmly; "and we must not
allow our little meeting to end without persuading Mrs. Dane to
say a few words to us on a subject which, to-day, is much more
present in all our thoughts. I refer, of course, to 'The Wings
of Death.'"
The other members, animated by various degrees of the same
sentiment, and encouraged by the humanised mien of their
redoubtable guest, repeated after Mrs. Ballinger: "Oh, yes, you
really MUST talk to us a little about your book."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: days of Louis Quinze. What could a corrupt tree bring forth, but
corrupt fruit? If some of the early lodges, like those of "La
Felicite" and "L'Ancre," to which women were admitted, resembled not
a little the Bacchic mysteries of old Rome, and like them called for
the interference of the police, still no great reform was to be
expected, when those Sovereign Masonic Princes, the "Emperors of the
East and West," quarrelled--knights of the East against knights of
the West--till they were absorbed or crushed by the Lodge "Grand
Orient," with Philippe Egalite, Duc de Chartres, as their grand
master, and as his representative, the hero of the diamond necklace,
and disciple of Count Cagliostro--Louis, Prince de Rohan.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: now abandoned, since he plainly appeared a being of blood and
bone with themselves,--yet he must be in close league with the
invisible world, and have chosen that sequestered spot to carry
on his communication with them undisturbed. They insisted,
though in a different sense from the philosopher's application of
the phrase, that he was never less alone than when alone; and
that from the heights which commanded the moor at a distance,
passengers often discovered a person at work along with this
dweller of the desert, who regularly disappeared as soon as they
approached closer to the cottage. Such a figure was also
occasionally seen sitting beside him at the door, walking with
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