| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: our clothing and allotted us spending money and money for Sunday-
school.
This is a cynical age and I can imagine that I hear somebody
snicker when I confess the fondness I had for the Sunday-school.
I don't want any one to think I am laying claim to the record of
having always been a good little boy; nor that everything I did
was wise. No; I confess I did my share of deviltry, that some of
my deeds were foolish, and (to use the slang of that time) I
often got it in the neck. Once I bantered a big fat boy to a
fight. He chased me and I ran and crawled into a place so narrow
that I knew he couldn't follow me. I crawled under the floor of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: hidden still left; but some day, you may be sure, their turn will
come.
One day my charwoman, a working man's wife, came to beg me to honor
her sister's wedding with my presence. If you are to realize what this
wedding was like you must know that I paid my charwoman, poor
creature, four francs a month; for which sum she came every morning to
make my bed, clean my shoes, brush my clothes, sweep the room, and
make ready my breakfast, before going to her day's work of turning the
handle of a machine, at which hard drudgery she earned five-pence. Her
husband, a cabinetmaker, made four francs a day at his trade; but as
they had three children, it was all that they could do to gain an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: a servant, and to whom we owe so much. Masters shall order your
diet; and that we ourselves may see that he is obeyed, you must
attend us in this progress to Kenilworth."
This was said so peremptorily, and at the same time with so much
kindness, that Sussex, however unwilling to become the guest of
his rival, had no resource but to bow low to the Queen in
obedience to her commands, and to express to Leicester, with
blunt courtesy, though mingled with embarrassment, his acceptance
of his invitation. As the Earls exchanged compliments on the
occasion, the Queen said to her High Treasurer, "Methinks, my
lord, the countenances of these our two noble peers resemble
Kenilworth |
