| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: lives as hers had been darkened. She resolved to seek counsel
in the one person who most thoroughly distrusted Emilia,--Aunt
Jane.
This lady was in a particularly happy mood that day. Emilia,
who did all kinds of fine needle-work exquisitely, had just
embroidered for Aunt Jane some pillow-cases. The original
suggestion came from Hope, but it never cost Emilia anything to
keep a secret, and she had presented the gift very sweetly, as
if it were a thought of her own. Aunt Jane, who with all her
penetration as to facts was often very guileless as to motives,
was thoroughly touched by the humility and the embroidery.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: " 'Like this,' said Taillefer; 'Nucingen is just the man to swallow
down his old master's capital, and then to disgorge it.'
" 'Ugh! ugh!' coughed Werbrust, 'these churches are confoundedly damp;
ugh! ugh! What do you mean by "disgorge it"?'
" 'Well, Nucingen knows that du Tillet has a lot of money; he wants to
marry him to Malvina; but du Tillet is shy of Nucingen. To a looker-
on, the game is good fun.'
" 'What!' exclaimed Werbrust, 'is she old enough to marry? How quickly
we grow old!'
" 'Malvina d'Aldrigger is quite twenty years old, my dear fellow. Old
d'Aldrigger was married in 1800. He gave some rather fine
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: philosopher's stone that should turn discouragement
into hope, by singling out Gusev for his special praise and
insisting that his plans should be fully discussed at the
Supreme Council in the Kremlin. Trotsky followed Lenin's
lead, and in the end a general programme for Russian
reconstruction was drawn up, differing only slightly from
that which Gusev had proposed. I give this scheme in
Trotsky's words, because they are a little fuller than those of
others, and knowledge of this plan will explain not only
what the Communists are trying to do in Russia, but
what they would like to get from us today and what
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