| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: "I'm givin' it to ye straight, Dan; an' she pulled a gun on me,
too,"--telling the lie with perfect composure. "That woman's no
slouch, or I don't know 'em. One thing ye can bet yer bottom
dollar on--all h--- can't scare her. We've got to try some other
way."
It was the peculiarly fertile quality of Crimmins's imagination
that made him so valuable to some of his friends.
When the conspirators reached the door, neither Crimmins nor his
father was in a talkative mood, and Billy heard nothing. They
lingered a moment on the sill, within a foot of his head as he lay
in a cramped position below, and then they sauntered out, his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: claret's wholesome; it's not a sound, reliable wine. Give us a
brandy and soda, there's a good soul.' Teena's face became like
adamant. 'Well, then,' said the lawyer fretfully, 'I won't eat
any more dinner.'
'Ye can please yourself about that, Mr Michael,' said Teena, and
began composedly to take away.
'I do wish Teena wasn't a faithful servant!' sighed the lawyer,
as he issued into Kings's Road.
The rain had ceased; the wind still blew, but only with a
pleasant freshness; the town, in the clear darkness of the night,
glittered with street-lamps and shone with glancing rain-pools.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: Abbe Birotteau in the struggle which was now inevitable between the
poor priest and his antagonists and all their adherents. A true
presentiment, an infallible provincial instinct, led them to couple
the names of Gamard and Troubert. But none of the persons assembled on
this occasion in Madame de Listomere's salon, except the old fox, had
any real idea of the nature and importance of such a struggle.
Monsieur de Bourbonne took the poor abbe aside into a corner of the
room.
"Of the fourteen persons now present," he said, in a low voice, "not
one will stand by you a fortnight hence. If the time comes when you
need some one to support you you may find that I am the only person in
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