| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: whose tombs outside had borne French inscriptions.
"My mother's family," said Mrs. Weguelin.
"And nowadays," inquired Beverly, "what do they find instead of military
careers?"
"There are no more of us nowadays; they--they were killed in the war."
And immediately she smiled, and with her hand she made a light gesture,
as if to dismiss this subject from mutual embarrassment and pain.
"I might have known better," murmured the understanding Beverly.
But Charley now had his question. "How many, did you say?"
"How many?" Mrs. Weguelin did not quite understand him.
"Were killed?" explained Charley.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: "Yes, and no," she said, smiling. "It was only those who could use
their feet as well as their hands who could get a good living: or,
indeed, get married; so that they got the best of everything, and
starved out all the rest; and those who are left keep up a regular
breed of toe-thumb-men, as a breed of short-horns, or are skye-
terriers, or fancy pigeons is kept up."
"But there is a hairy one among them," said Ellie.
"Ah!" said the fairy, "that will be a great man in his time, and
chief of all the tribe."
And, when she turned over the next five hundred years, it was true.
For this hairy chief had had hairy children, and they hairier
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: she may fall, and defile her head in dust, if you leave her without
help at some moments of her life; but you cannot fetter her; she
must take her own fair form and way, if she take any, and in mind as
in body, must have always
"Her household motions light and free
And steps of virgin liberty."
Let her loose in the library, I say, as you do a fawn in a field.
It knows the bad weeds twenty times better than you; and the good
ones too, and will eat some bitter and prickly ones, good for it,
which you had not the slightest thought would have been so.
Then, in art, keep the finest models before her, and let her
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