| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: country at seventy per cent below the prices at which you can credit
us."
"How shall we get them?"
"Oh, by raids, by taxes in kind, and the Khaliphat.--The country is
little known, though we settled there eight years ago; Algeria
produces vast quantities of corn and forage. When this produce belongs
to Arabs, we take it from them under various pretences; when it
belongs to us, the Arabs try to get it back again. There is a great
deal of fighting over the corn, and no one ever knows exactly how much
each party has stolen from the other. There is not time in the open
field to measure the corn as we do in the Paris market, or the hay as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: Your mother does not know yet that we have visitors.
PRAED. I'm afraid we're giving trouble.
FRANK [rising] Not the least in the world: my mother will be
delighted to see you. She's a genuinely intellectual artistic
woman; and she sees nobody here from one year's end to another
except the gov'nor; so you can imagine how jolly dull it pans out
for her. [To his father] Y o u r e not intellectual or artistic:
are you pater? So take Praed home at once; and I'll stay here
and entertain Mrs Warren. Youll pick up Crofts in the garden.
He'll be excellent company for the bull-pup.
PRAED [taking his hat from the dresser, and coming close to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "Any fool can drive. . . ."
"Exactly," said Prothero.
"As for riding, it means no more than the elaborate study and
cultivation of your horse. You have to know him. All horses are
individuals. A made horse perhaps goes its round like an omnibus,
but for the rest. . . ."
Prothero made a noise of sympathetic assent.
"In a country where equestrianism is assertion I suppose one must be
equestrian. . . ."
That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great
American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow
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