| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: this morning when she started for school, and I
thought for the first time that there was a little re-
semblance to the Wheelers."
Grandmother Stark sniffed, but she looked grati-
fied. "I have been noticing it for some time," said
she, "but as for looking like the Wheelers, I thought
this morning for a minute that I actually saw my
poor dear husband looking at me out of that blessed
child's eyes."
Grandmother Wheeler smiled her little, aggra-
vating, curved, pink smile.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: Agathon replied: I fear that I did not understand what I was saying.
You made a very good speech, Agathon, replied Socrates; but there is yet
one small question which I would fain ask:--Is not the good also the
beautiful?
Yes.
Then in wanting the beautiful, love wants also the good?
I cannot refute you, Socrates, said Agathon:--Let us assume that what you
say is true.
Say rather, beloved Agathon, that you cannot refute the truth; for Socrates
is easily refuted.
And now, taking my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: the BEACH OF FALESA, and the yarn is cured. I have about
thirty pages of it done; it will be fifty to seventy I
suppose. No supernatural trick at all; and escaped out of it
quite easily; can't think why I was so stupid for so long.
Mighty glad to have Fanny back to this 'Hell of the South
Seas,' as the German Captain called it. What will
Cedarcrantz think when he comes back? To do him justice, had
he been here, this Manono hash would not have been.
Here is a pretty thing. When Fanny was in Fiji all the Samoa
and Tokelau folks were agog about our 'flash' house; but the
whites had never heard of it.
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