| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: and limb and pedigree, all bankrupt and in debt up to the ears.
They come high, but we can afford it. Come, Aleck, don't delay
any longer, don't keep up the suspense: take the whole lay-out,
and leave the girls to choose!"
Aleck had been smiling blandly and contentedly all through this
arraignment of her marriage policy, a pleasant light, as of triumph
with perhaps a nice surprise peeping out through it, rose in her eyes,
and she said, as calmly as she could:
"Sally, what would you say to--ROYALTY?"
Prodigious! Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the
garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads. He was dizzy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: tell her. "If from some faraway tavern the wind floated sounds of
a song and the squeaking of an accordion, or a sledge with bells
dashed by the garden-fence, it was quite enough to send a rush of
happiness, filling not only my heart, but even my stomach, my
legs, my arms. . . . I would listen to the accordion or the bells
dying away in the distance and imagine myself a doctor, and paint
pictures, one better than another. And here, as you see, my
dreams have come true. I have had more than I dared to dream of.
For thirty years I have been the favourite professor, I have had
splendid comrades, I have enjoyed fame and honour. I have loved,
married from passionate love, have had children. In fact, looking
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: true physical science is, that we ourselves and our own class know
very little about it, and practise it very little. And this
society, I do hope, will bear in mind that it is not simply to
seek the working man, not only to go into the foul alley: but it
is to go to the door of the farmer, to the door of the shopkeeper,
aye, to the door of ladies and gentlemen of the same rank as
ourselves. Women can do in that work what men cannot do. The
private correspondence, private conversation, private example, of
ladies, above all of married women, of mothers of families, may do
what no legislation can do. I am struck more and more with the
amount of disease and death I see around me in all classes, which
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