| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: discussed with her. He must tell her before he told the world.
And he could not imagine his telling her except as an
incredibly shattering act.
So he left things from day to day, and went about his episcopal
routines. He preached and delivered addresses in such phrases as
he knew people expected, and wondered profoundly why it was that
it should be impossible for him to discuss theological points
with Lady Ella. And one afternoon he went for a walk with Eleanor
along the banks of the Prin, and found himself, in response to
certain openings of hers, talking to her in almost exactly the
same terms as Likeman had used to him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: next thing I shall hear is that the etiquette is wrong in Otto's
Court! With a warrant, and I mean it to be so, and the whole
matter never cost me half a thought. I make these paper people to
please myself, and Skelt, and God Almighty, and with no ulterior
purpose. Yet am I mortal myself; for, as I remind you, I begged
for a supervising mariner. However, my heart is in the right
place. I have been to sea, but I never crossed the threshold of a
court; and the courts shall be the way I want 'em.
I'm glad to think I owe you the review that pleased me best of all
the reviews I ever had; the one I liked best before that was -'s on
the ARABIANS. These two are the flowers of the collection,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: further contributions at present,[47] what you should do is this:[48]
during the current year resolve to carry on the financial
administration of the state within the limits of a sum equivalent to
that which your dues[49] realised before the peace. That done, you are
at liberty to take any surplus sum, whether directly traceable to the
peace itself, or to the more courteous treatment of our resident
aliens and traders, or to the growth of the imports and exports,
coincident with the collecting together of larger masses of human
beings, or to an augmentation of harbour[50] and market dues: this
surplus, I say, however derived, you should take and invest[51] so as
to bring in the greatest revenue.[52]
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