| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: Anne?
Ruddy and white, and strong on his legs, he looks like
a man.
And Willy's wife has written: she never was over-
wise,
Never the wife for Willy: he would n't take my
advice.
II.
For, Annie, you see, her father was not the man to
save,
Had n't a head to manage, and drank himself into his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "I will give her a chance," said her Grace's son, a trifle grimly.
"I shall make her go and see them."
"She won't do it, my boy."
"We'll see if she doesn't," said Lord Lambeth.
But if Percy Beaumont took a somber view of the arrival
of the two ladies at Jones's Hotel, he was sufficiently
a man of the world to offer them a smiling countenance.
He fell into animated conversation--conversation, at least,
that was animated on her side--with Mrs. Westgate, while his
companion made himself agreeable to the younger lady.
Mrs. Westgate began confessing and protesting,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: 'That he did in the general bosom reign
Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted,
To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain
In personal duty, following where he haunted:
Consents bewitch'd, ere he desire, have granted;
And dialogued for him what he would say,
Ask'd their own wills, and made their wills obey.
'Many there were that did his picture get,
To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind;
Like fools that in the imagination set
The goodly objects which abroad they find
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