| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: softer and more abundant than it was in my memory, and a gleam of
purple velvet-set diamonds showed amidst its mist of little golden
and brown lines. Her dress was of white and violet, the last trace
of mourning for her mother, and confessed the gracious droop of her
tall and slender body. She did not suggest Staffordshire at all,
and I was puzzled for a moment to think where I had met her. Her
sweetly shaped mouth with the slight obliquity of the lip and the
little kink in her brow were extraordinarily familiar to me. But
she had either been prepared by Altiora or she remembered my name.
"We met," she said, "while my step-father was alive--at Misterton.
You came to see us"; and instantly I recalled the sunshine between
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: body. Her own trembling fingers clung to him with
desperate longing tenderness. She roused herself with
an effort and drew away.
"That's enough now. I must have a little common-
sense. Let's go----"
He clung to her hand.
"You'll let me come to see you, tomorrow night?"
"Yes----"
"And the next night--and every night this week--
what's the difference? There's nobody to say no, is
there?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: interfering or trying to interfere in their domestic life,
ordering the conditions of employment, draining them of their
hard-won livelihood by trusts and monopolies established and
maintained in the interest of the Religious Orders, placing
obstacles in the way of their children's education, hindering
them in the exercise of their constitutional rights, and
deliberately ruining those of them who are bold enough to run
counter to priestly dictation. Riots suddenly break out in
Barcelona; they are instigated by the Jesuits. The country goes
to war in Morocco; it is dragged into it solely in defense of the
mines owned, actually, if not ostensibly, by the Jesuits. The
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