| 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: and dog and cat, might escape danger, although she
had never been quite sure that she was not wicked
in including the dog and cat. She was surer about
the horse because he was the means by which her
father made pastoral calls upon his distant sheep.
Then afterward she just sat with the others and
waited until the storm was over and it was time to
open windows and see if the roof had leaked. To-
day, however, she was intent upon the hay. In a
lull of the tempest she spoke.
"It is a pity," she said, "that I was not able to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: learned at family worship. Then a squall came up; we sat a
while in roaring midnight under rivers of rain, and, when it
blew by, there was the light again, immovable. A second
squall followed, one of the worst I was ever out in; we could
scarce catch our breath in the cold, dashing deluge. When it
went, we were so cold that the water in the bottom of the
boat (which I was then baling) seemed like a warm footbath in
comparison, and Belle and I, who were still barefoot, were
quite restored by laving in it.
All this time I had kept my temper, and refrained as far as
might be from any interference, for I saw (in our friend's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: The three pushed each other and babbled little phrases which
redoubled their merriment.
"Come, Clarisse, kiss the gentleman," said Fauchery. "You know,
he's got the rhino."
And turning to the count:
"You'll see, she's very nice! She's going to kiss you!"
But Clarisse was disgusted by the men. She spoke in violent terms
of the dirty lot waiting at the porter's lodge down below. Besides,
she was in a hurry to go downstairs again; they were making her miss
her last scene. Then as Fauchery blocked up the doorway, she gave
Muffat a couple of kisses on the whiskers, remarking as she did so:
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