| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: found it necessary to make a complete change in our menu and
dining habits. Instead of the simple dishes to which I was
accustomed when I was a student and when I was in practice, now
they feed me with a puree with little white things like circles
floating about in it, and kidneys stewed in madeira. My rank as a
general and my fame have robbed me for ever of cabbage-soup and
savoury pies, and goose with apple-sauce, and bream with boiled
grain. They have robbed me of our maid-servant Agasha, a chatty
and laughter-loving old woman, instead of whom Yegor, a
dull-witted and conceited fellow with a white glove on his right
hand, waits at dinner. The intervals between the courses are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: There, however, the atmosphere had changed with the
conditions. He could not say that she avoided him, or even
that she was a shade less glad to see him; but she was beset
by family duties and, as he thought, a little too readily
resigned to them.
The Marquise de Chantelle, as Darrow soon perceived, had the
same mild formidableness as the late Mr. Leath: a sort of
insistent self-effacement before which every one about her
gave way. It was perhaps the shadow of this lady's
presence--pervasive even during her actual brief eclipses--
that subdued and silenced Mrs. Leath. The latter was,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: so silly. She wanted to tell him that he was a great fool, for
she feared he would never find it out himself; but he was older
than she was, and she did not think it quite proper to do so.
"I must go now," said Katy. "If you don't find anything you like
better, you can sell candy, you know."
"Katy!" exclaimed Simon, sternly.
"I am poor and proud, Master Simon; I am too proud to be
dependent, or do anything mean and wicked; but I am not too proud
to sell candy."
"I am," replied Simon, with dignity.
"Then yours is a foolish pride," replied Katy, with a smile to
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