| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: for a door-mat." His maimed hand happened to be resting on the
saddle horn as he spoke, and the story of the maiming emphasized
potently the truth of his claim.
"Don't you assume a good deal, Mr. Collins, when you imply that I
have any desire to master you?"
"Not a bit," he assured her cheerfully. "Every woman wants to
boss the man she's going to marry, but if she finds she can't
she's glad of it, because then she knows she's got a man."
"You are quite sure I am going to marry you?" she asked
gently--too gently, he thought.
"I'm only reasonably sure," he informed her. "You see, I can't
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: held out his hand to the friar, and said, "Sing on, in God's name,
and crack away the flasks till your voice swims in canary."
Then turning to Sir Ralph, he said, "You see how it is, sir knight.
Matilda is my daughter; but she has me in leading-strings, that is
the truth of it."
CHAPTER V
'T is true, no lover has that power
To enforce a desperate amour
As he that has two strings to his bow
And burns for love and money too.--BUTLER.
The friar had often had experience of the baron's testy humour;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: stand on the errors committed by juries, would abolish the jury
and replace it by judges. It is difficult to see how these
would-be reformers can forget that the errors for which the jury
is blamed were committed in the first instance by judges, and
that when the accused person comes before a jury he has already
been held to be guilty by several magistrates, by the juge
d'instruction, the public prosecutor, and the Court of
Arraignment. It should thus be clear that were the accused to be
definitely judged by magistrates instead of by jurymen, he would
lose his only chance of being admitted innocent. The errors of
juries have always been first of all the errors of magistrates.
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