| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: scrutiny he went past her upstairs.
Since they had come to Princhester Lady Ella had changed very
markedly. She seemed to her husband to have gained in dignity;
she was stiller and more restrained; a certain faint arrogance, a
touch of the "ruling class" manner had dwindled almost to the
vanishing point. There had been a time when she had inclined to
an authoritative hauteur, when she had seemed likely to develop
into one of those aggressive and interfering old ladies who play
so overwhelming a part in British public affairs. She had been
known to initiate adverse judgments, to exercise the snub, to cut
and humiliate. Princhester had done much to purge her of such
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: in his hand. He opened the door and peered in; then entered, and touched
the fellow with his boot. Seeing that he breathed heavily, though he did
not rouse, Bonaparte threw the bread down on the ground. He was alive,
that was one thing. He bent over him, and carefully scratched open one of
the cuts with the nail of his forefinger, examining with much interest his
last night's work. He would have to count his sheep himself that day; the
boy was literally cut up. He locked the door and went away again.
"Oh, Lyndall," said Em, entering the dining room, and bathed in tears, that
afternoon, "I have been begging Bonaparte to let him out, and he won't."
"The more you beg the more he will not," said Lyndall.
She was cutting out aprons on the table.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Stevenson. There are at least three PLACES called Stevenson -
STEVENSON in Cunningham, STEVENSON in Peebles, and STEVENSON in
Haddington. And it was not the Celtic trick, I understand, to call
places after people. I am going to write to Sir Herbert Maxwell
about the name, but you might find some one.
Get the Anglo-Saxon heresy out of your head; they superimposed
their language, they scarce modified the race; only in Berwickshire
and Roxburgh have they very largely affected the place names. The
Scandinavians did much more to Scotland than the Angles. The
Saxons didn't come.
Enough of this sham antiquarianism. Yes, it is in the matter of
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