| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: dies in wild testimony against his error:-
"Oh, murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Do with so good a wife?"
In Romeo and Juliet, the wise and brave stratagem of the wife is
brought to ruinous issue by the reckless impatience of her husband.
In Winter's Tale, and in Cymbeline, the happiness and existence of
two princely households, lost through long years, and imperilled to
the death by the folly and obstinacy of the husbands, are redeemed
at last by the queenly patience and wisdom of the wives. In Measure
for Measure, the foul injustice of the judge, and the foul cowardice
of the brother, are opposed to the victorious truth and adamantine
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: again.
"I guess luck's breaking our way again," he grinned. "The old boy
paid a hundred thousand cold for that necklace. You know how long
we've been waiting to get our hooks on it, and we've never had our
eyes off his house for two months. Well, it pays to wait, and it
pays to do things right. It broke our way at last to-night, all
right, all right! To-day's Saturday - and the safety deposit vaults
aren't open on Sunday. Mrs. Hayden-Bond's been away all week
visiting, but she comes back to-morrow, and there's some swell
society fuss fixed for to-morrow night, and she wants her necklace
to make a splurge, so she writes Mr. H-hyphen-B, and out it comes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: that you blame the father for profiting by these, or the officers
for granting them? In either case, it is a mighty Spartan standard
to issue from the house on Beretania Street; and I am convinced you
will find yourself with few supporters.
Damien HAD NO HAND IN THE REFORMS, ETC.
I think even you will admit that I have already been frank in my
description of the man I am defending; but before I take you up
upon this head, I will be franker still, and tell you that perhaps
nowhere in the world can a man taste a more pleasurable sense of
contrast than when he passes from Damien's "Chinatown" at Kalawao
to the beautiful Bishop-Home at Kalaupapa. At this point, in my
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