| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: when he had finished, "and lately Jane has been try-
ing, but they don't seem to have the knack. I
don't want to urge you, Annie, but --"
"You know when I am married you will have to
get on without me," Annie said, in a low voice.
"Yes, but in the mean time you might, if you
were home, show Susan and Jane."
"Father," said Annie, "you know if I came home
now it would be just the same as it was before.
You know if I give in and break my word with my-
self to stay away a year what they will think
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: round to-day to all your pupils and tell them that you are ill; is it
not so? And then you can spend the nights with our lamb, and sleep of
a morning from five o'clock till, let us say, two in the afternoon. I
myself will take the day, the most tiring part, for there is your
breakfast and dinner to get ready, and the bed to make, and the things
to change, and the doses of medicine to give. I could not hold out for
another ten days at this rate. What would become of you if I were to
fall ill? And you yourself, it makes one shudder to see you; just look
at yourself, after sitting up with him last night!"
She drew Schmucke to the glass, and Schmucke thought that there was a
great change.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: MOUSE.
Master, bear this and bear all.
SEGASTO.
Why so, sir?
MOUSE.
He says you take a goose by the crown.
SEGASTO.
Go to, sir: away, post you to the king,
Whose heart is fraught with careful doubts,
Glad him up and tell him these good news,
And we will follow as fast as we may.
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