| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: But that I know them: do they charge me further?
DIANA.
Why do you look so strange upon your wife?
BERTRAM.
She's none of mine, my lord.
DIANA.
If you shall marry,
You give away this hand, and that is mine;
You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;
You give away myself, which is known mine;
For I by vow am so embodied yours
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: alongside, and holding on by the gunwale of the houseboat; so
that not a word was lost on Gideon.
'He's a music-man,' said the landlord, 'or at least that's what
he told me, miss; come down here to write an op'ra.'
'Really!' cried Julia, 'I never heard of anything so delightful!
Why, we shall be able to slip down at night and hear him
improvise! What' is his name?'
'Jimson,' said the man.
'Jimson?' repeated Julia, and interrogated her memory in vain.
But indeed our rising school of English music boasts so many
professors that we rarely hear of one till he is made a baronet.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: without a livre, - and indeed, said he, without anything but this,
- (pointing, as he said it, to his croix). - The poor Chevalier won
my pity, and he finished the scene with winning my esteem too.
The king, he said, was the most generous of princes, but his
generosity could neither relieve nor reward everyone, and it was
only his misfortune to be amongst the number. He had a little
wife, he said, whom he loved, who did the PATISSERIE; and added, he
felt no dishonour in defending her and himself from want in this
way - unless Providence had offer'd him a better.
It would be wicked to withhold a pleasure from the good, in passing
over what happen'd to this poor Chevalier of St. Louis about nine
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