| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: to get her away. Far from this," she pursued, "far from THEM-"
"She may be different? She may be free?" I seized her almost with joy.
"Then, in spite of yesterday, you BELIEVE--"
"In such doings?" Her simple description of them required,
in the light of her expression, to be carried no further,
and she gave me the whole thing as she had never done.
"I believe."
Yes, it was a joy, and we were still shoulder to shoulder: if I might
continue sure of that I should care but little what else happened.
My support in the presence of disaster would be the same as it had
been in my early need of confidence, and if my friend would answer
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: t'other bottle, like the noisy and free-hearted young gentleman I
was. It was my policy (if I may so express myself) to talk much
and say little. At the inn tables, the country, the state of the
roads, the business interest of those who sat down with me, and the
course of public events, afforded me a considerable field in which
I might discourse at large and still communicate no information
about myself. There was no one with less air of reticence; I
plunged into my company up to the neck; and I had a long cock-and-
bull story of an aunt of mine which must have convinced the most
suspicious of my innocence. 'What!' they would have said, 'that
young ass to be concealing anything! Why, he has deafened me with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: must be careful of what may be done, or what may not, and select
only such measures as may be really of benefit to the empire."
I submit the above edict to the reader requesting him to study
it, and, if necessary to its understanding, to copy it, and see
if the Empress Dowager has not preserved the best there is in it,
viz., "the Peking University, and the middle schools in the
provincial capitals," "full liberty being given to the people
with reference to the lower schools in the sub-prefectures and
districts to do as they please." How much oil would be cast on
how many troubled waters can only be realized by the unfortunate
priests and dismissed officials and people upon whom "there need
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