| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: sincerely or affectionately or for ever. The father and daughter would
have been quite content, apparently, to eat their dinner in silence,
or with a few cryptic remarks expressed in a shorthand which could not
be understood by the servants. But silence depressed Mrs. Hilbery, and
far from minding the presence of maids, she would often address
herself to them, and was never altogether unconscious of their
approval or disapproval of her remarks. In the first place she called
them to witness that the room was darker than usual, and had all the
lights turned on.
"That's more cheerful," she exclaimed. "D'you know, Katharine, that
ridiculous goose came to tea with me? Oh, how I wanted you! He tried
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: him, or would he be wiser to remain comfortably seated and to try
to digest another of his friend's theories?
While Jimmy was trying to decide this vexed question, his ear
caught the sound of a girlish titter. Turning in embarrassment
toward a secluded path just behind him, whom did he see coming
toward him but Alfred, with what appeared to be a bunch of
daffodils; but as Alfred drew nearer, Jimmy began to perceive at
his elbow a large flower-trimmed hat, and--"horrors!"-- beneath
it, with a great deal of filmy white and yellow floating from it,
was a small pink and white face.
Barely had Jimmy reversed himself and rearranged his round,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: moment, and she said nothing; so he added: "I've tried to turn off
some little sketches, but the magazines won't have them - they're
declined with thanks."
"You see then you're not such a phoenix," his visitor pointedly
smiled - "to pretend to abilities you're sacrificing for our sake."
"I haven't time to do things properly," he ruefully went on. Then
as it came over him that he was almost abjectly good-natured to
give these explanations he added: "If I stay on longer it must be
on one condition - that Morgan shall know distinctly on what
footing I am."
Mrs. Moreen demurred. "Surely you don't want to show off to a
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