| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "you just meet me on the ballast, and we'll make it a
barquentine."
Nares laughed a little; tactless Pinkerton had once more gained
a victory in tact. "Then there's another point," resumed the
captain, tacitly relinquishing the last. "How about the
owners?"
"O, you leave that to me; I'm one of Longhurst's crowd, you
know," said Jim, with sudden bristling vanity. "Any man that's
good enough for me, is good enough for them."
"Who are they?" asked Nares.
"M'Intyre and Spittal," said Jim.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,
A longing tarriance for Adonis made
Under an osier growing by a brook,
A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen:
Hot was the day; she hotter that did look
For his approach, that often there had been.
Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,
And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim:
The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye,
Yet not so wistly as this queen on him.
He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: wormwood always stood for somebody's solemn monument. Catnip, too,
is a very endurin' herb about an old place."
"But what I want to know is what she did for other things,"
interrupted Mrs. Fosdick. "Almiry, what did she do for clothin'
when she needed to replenish, or risin' for her bread, or the
piece-bag that no woman can live long without?"
"Or company," suggested Mrs. Todd. "Joanna was one that loved
her friends. There must have been a terrible sight o' long winter
evenin's that first year."
"There was her hens," suggested Mrs. Fosdick, after reviewing
the melancholy situation. "She never wanted the sheep after that
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