| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: here? However in the world would your father get along without
you--and Snooky and Howard?"
"Aunt Dodd is going to come."
"Sudden enough," said Condy, "but it IS a great thing for you,
Blix, and I'm mighty glad for you. Your future is all cut out for
you now. Of course your aunt, if she's so fond of you and hasn't
any children, will leave you everything--maybe settle something on
you right away; and you'll marry some one of those New York chaps,
and be great big people before you know it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: respect, with what a revolution in all his hopes and terrors, none
but an invalid can know. Resignation, the cowardice that apes a kind
of courage and that lives in the very air of health resorts, is cast
aside at a breath of such a prospect. The man can open the door; he
can be up and doing; he can be a kind of a man after all and not
merely an invalid.
But it is a far cry to the Rocky Mountains. We cannot all of us go
farming in Colorado; and there is yet a middle term, which combines
the medical benefits of the new system with the moral drawbacks of
the old. Again the invalid has to lie aside from life and its
wholesome duties; again he has to be an idler among idlers; but this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: stand it better to have you hit him in anger, but you're so hard,
so cruel. You plan it all out so--how can you?"
Nevertheless, with a last convulsive hug and a broken "Mother
can't help it, darling," she put Billy on his feet, her tormented
heart wrung with bitterness as Martin took the clinging child
from her and carried him away, hysterical and resisting.
"What else could I do?" she asked herself miserably, stabbed by
the added fear that Billy might not forgive her. Could he
understand how powerless she had been?
When once more the child was cuddled against her, she realized
that in some mystical way there was a new bond between them, and
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