| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: chest. The doctor helped me along, for the snow was drifting,
and when he saw I was past the crying stage he went back to
what we were both thinking about.
"Old Pierce is right," he said. "Remember, Miss Minnie, I've
nothing against you or your mineral spring; in fact, I'm strong
for you both. But while I'm out of the ring now for good--I
don't mind saying to you what I said to Pierce, that the only
thing that gets into training here, as far as I can see, is a
fellow's pocketbook."
We went back to the house and I straightened the news stand,
Amanda King having taken a violent toothache as a result of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: me--a miscreant? Well, that's what I am."
His arms slipped round her as she began to sob, and he gentled
her till she could again speak. "Tell me all about it, little
Curly." he said.
"I didn't go into it because I wanted to. My master made me. I
don't know much about the others, except that I heard the names
they called each other."
"Would you know them again if you saw them? But of course you
would."
"Yes. But that's it, Bucky. I hated them all, and I was in mortal
fear all the time. Still--I can't betray them. They thought I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: And clad in iron burst the ranks of war,
Or, falling, promartyr of our cause,
Die: yet I blame you not so much for fear:
Six thousand years of fear have made you that
From which I would redeem you: but for those
That stir this hubbub--you and you--I know
Your faces there in the crowd--tomorrow morn
We hold a great convention: then shall they
That love their voices more than duty, learn
With whom they deal, dismissed in shame to live
No wiser than their mothers, household stuff,
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