| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: her cousin, the tears rushing to her eyes. "I may come
back to you and little Lucy some time. But just now I
want to be alone and fancy myself young. I never was
young."
When Lucy stole into her old friend's chamber the next
morning as usual to drink her cup of coffee with her, she
found the door open and the room in disorder, and she was
told that Mrs. Waldeaux had left London at daybreak.
CHAPTER VII
During the year which followed, Mr. Perry was forced to
return to the States, but he made two flying trips across
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: not look on the face of woman? Has he a house of reeds or a house
of burnt clay or does he lie on the hillside? Or does he make his
bed in the rushes?
FIRST MAN. He dwells in that cavern yonder.
MYRRHINA. What a curious place to dwell in!
FIRST MAN. Of old a centaur lived there. When the hermit came the
centaur gave a shrill cry, wept and lamented, and galloped away.
SECOND MAN. No. It was a white unicorn who lived in the cave.
When it saw the hermit coming the unicorn knelt down and worshipped
him. Many people saw it worshipping him.
FIRST MAN. I have talked with people who saw it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: spirit, but down at the very bottom of his heart he knew better.
The customers were a secondary consideration, and it was only
after the lapse of perhaps a minute that he perceived that among
them was--the Young Lady in Grey! He turned away from the window
at once, and saw the other man in brown standing at the edge of
the pavement and regarding him with a very curious expression of
face.
There came into Mr. Hoopdriver's head the curious problem whether
he was to be regarded as a nuisance haunting these people, or
whether they were to be regarded as a nuisance haunting him. He
abandoned the solution at last in despair, quite unable to decide
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