| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: tears glittered in the deep shadows; perhaps his breathing sounded
faintly; perhaps unconsciously he trembled, or again it may have been
impossible that he should stand there, his presence unfelt by that
quick sense which grows to be an instinct, the glory, the delight, the
proof of perfect love. However it was, Mme. de Beauseant slowly turned
her face towards the doorway, and beheld her lover of bygone days.
Then Gaston de Nueil came forward a few paces.
"If you come any further, sir," exclaimed the Marquise, growing paler,
"I shall fling myself out of the window!"
She sprang to the window, flung it open, and stood with one foot on
the ledge, her hand upon the iron balustrade, her face turned towards
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: government of nations; that from the days of Amalasontha to Isabella of
Spain, Elizabeth of England, and Catharine of Russia, women have not failed
to grasp the large impersonal aspects of life, and successfully and
powerfully to control them, when placed in the supreme position in which it
was demanded. It may also be stated, and is sometimes, with so much
iteration as to become almost wearisome, that women's adequacy in the
modern fields of intellectual or skilled manual labour is no more today an
open matter for debate, than the number of modern women who, as senior
wranglers, doctors, &c., have already successfully entered the new fields,
and the high standard attained by women in all university examinations to
which they are admitted, and their universal success in the administration
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And we, I hope, sir, are no murtherers.
WARWICK.
But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,
And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep;
'T is like you would not feast him like a friend,
And 't is well seen he found an enemy.
QUEEN.
Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen
As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death.
WARWICK.
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
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