| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: alted voice. "It ain't that, young man. It's be-
cause the food is blessed."
Stephen stayed all day on Silver Mountain. He
and Christopher went fishing, and had fried trout for
dinner. He took some of the trout home to Myrtle.
Myrtle received them with a sort of state which
defied the imputation of sadness. "Did he seem
comfortable?" she asked.
"Comfortable, Mrs. Dodd? I believe it will mean
a new lease of life to your husband. He is an un-
common man."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: And Juana?--The marquis never asked himself what would become of
Juana; but he had studied her character, its nobility, candor, and
strength, and he knew he might be sure of her silence.
He obtained a mission from one of the generals. Three days later, on
the night preceding his intended departure, Montefiore, instead of
returning to his own room after dinner, contrived to enter unseen that
of Juana, to make that farewell night the longer. Juana, true Spaniard
and true Italian, was enchanted with such boldness; it argued ardor!
For herself she did not fear discovery. To find in the pure love of
marriage the excitements of intrigue, to hide her husband behind the
curtains of her bed, and say to her adopted father and mother, in case
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: simple ornament, now crumbling into ruin and overgrown with
wildflowers--moss and ivy, wallflowers and pellitory. Every stone wall
on the hillside is decked with this ineradicable plant-life, which
springs up along the cracks afresh with new wreaths for every time of
year.
The worm-eaten gate gives into a little garden, a strip of turf, a few
trees, and a wilderness of flowers and rose bushes--a garden won from
the rock on the highest terrace of all, with the dark, old balustrade
along its edge. Opposite the gateway, a wooden summer-house stands
against the neighboring wall, the posts are covered with jessamine and
honeysuckle, vines and clematis.
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