| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "you have been really quite nice."
"May I tell you what you have been?"
"Certainly not. Have you seen Mr. Mayrant to-day?"
"We have an engagement to walk this afternoon. May I go walking with you
sometime?"
"May he, General?" A wagging tail knocked on the floor behind the
counter. "General says that he will think about it. What makes you like
Mr. Mayrant so much?"
This question struck me as an odd one; nor could I make out the import of
the peculiar tone in which she put it. "Why, I should think everybody
would like him--except, perhaps, his double victim."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: each side. By many an obscure and winding path, over dale and
down, through moss and moor, she was conveyed to the tower of
Westburnflat, where she remained strictly watched, but not
otherwise ill-treated, under the guardianship of the old woman,
to whose son that retreat belonged. No entreaties could prevail
upon the hag to give Miss Vere any information on the object of
her being carried forcibly off, and confined in this secluded
place. The arrival of Earnscliff, with a strong party of
horsemen, before the tower, alarmed the robber. As he had
already directed Grace Armstrong to be restored to her friends,
it did not occur to him that this unwelcome visit was on her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: distasteful that I will not do it."
(Vv. 2793-2978.) While he is thus beseeching him, behold across
the field a maiden riding on a tawny mule, her head uncovered and
her dress disarranged. In her hand she held a whip with which
she belaboured the mule; and in truth no horse could have
galloped so fast as was the pace of the mule. The damsel called
out to the Knight of the Cart: "May God bless thy heart, Sir
Knight, with whatever delights thee most!" And he, who heard her
gladly, says: "May God bless you, damsel, and give you joy and
health!" Then she tells him of her desire. "Knight," she says,
"in urgent need I have come from afar to thee to ask a favour,
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