| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: hear her violent sobs, and Lucy's faint voice entreating to know
what was the matter.
In vain he knocked. She refused to come out all day, and at even
they were forced to break the door open, to prevent Lucy being
starved.
There sat Ayacanora, her finery half torn off, and scattered about
the floor in spite, crying still as if her heart would break; while
poor Lucy cried too, half from fright and hunger, and half for
company.
Amyas tried to comfort the poor child, assured her that the men
should never laugh at her again; "But then," added he, "you must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: WINCHESTER.
Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;
For I intend to have it ere long.
[Exeunt, severally, Gloucester and Winchester with their
Serving-men.]
MAYOR.
See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.
Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
I myself fight not once in forty year.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE IV. Orleans.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: with relish the rise of Clem's fortunes. Indulgence followed hard on
the heels of admiration. The laird, Clem, and Dand, who were Tories and
patriots of the hottest quality, excused to themselves, with a certain
bashfulness, the radical and revolutionary heresies of Gib. By another
division of the family, the laird, Clem, and Gib, who were men exactly
virtuous, swallowed the dose of Dand's irregularities as a kind of clog
or drawback in the mysterious providence of God affixed to bards, and
distinctly probative of poetical genius. To appreciate the simplicity
of their mutual admiration it was necessary to hear Clem, arrived upon
one of his visits, and dealing in a spirit of continuous irony with the
affairs and personalities of that great city of Glasgow where he lived
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