| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: one?"
"I--I--"
Laughter ceased. She looked up at him once, then down at the floor, and
began breathing like a frightened little animal.
He pulled her closer still and kissed her mouth.
"Na, what are you doing?" she whispered.
He let go her hands, he placed his on her breasts, and the room seemed to
swim round Sabina. Suddenly, from the room above, a frightful, tearing
shriek.
She wrenched herself away, tightened herself, drew herself up.
"Who did that--who made that noise?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: turned the corner, and, as often as not, reached her own door
whistling a snatch of a Somersetshire ballad.
The suffrage office was at the top of one of the large Russell Square
houses, which had once been lived in by a great city merchant and his
family, and was now let out in slices to a number of societies which
displayed assorted initials upon doors of ground glass, and kept, each
of them, a typewriter which clicked busily all day long. The old
house, with its great stone staircase, echoed hollowly to the sound of
typewriters and of errand-boys from ten to six. The noise of different
typewriters already at work, disseminating their views upon the
protection of native races, or the value of cereals as foodstuffs,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: in peace, according to his word.
"Deary me, now, while I've been telling with you, here've this
little maid been and ate up all my sugar!"
"I'll bring you some more," said Amyas; whom the childish bathos of
the last sentence moved rather to sighs than laughter.
"Will ye, then? There's a good soul, and come and tell with old
Martin. He likes to see the brave young gentlemen, a-going to and
fro in their ships, like Leviathan, and taking of their pastime
therein. We had no such ships to our days. Ah, 'tis grand times,
beautiful times surely--and you'll bring me a bit sugar?"
"You were up the Plate with Cabot?" said Cary, after a pause. "Do
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