| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: unknown to my uncle. You go then to this address, Richard
Street, Glasgow; go, please, as soon as you arrive; and give
this letter with your own hands into those of Miss
Fonblanque, for that is the name by which she is to pass.
When we next meet, you will tell me what you think of her,'
she added, with a touch of the provocative.
'Ah,' said Challoner, almost tenderly, 'she can be nothing to
me.'
'You do not know,' replied the young lady, with a sigh. 'By-
the-bye, I had forgotten - it is very childish, and I am
almost ashamed to mention it - but when you see Miss
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: for many years was suffering from rheumatism, and was cared for
by her daughter in the little cottage across the road from the
Lancaster house. Her husband and grandson were the man and boy
at work in the grounds. The three sisters took care of
themselves and their house with the elegant ease and lack of
fluster of gentlewomen born and bred. Miss Amelia, bringing in
the tea-tray, was an unclassed being, neither maid nor mistress,
but outranking either. She had tied on a white apron. She bore
the silver tray with an ease which bespoke either nerve or muscle
in her lace-draped arms.
She poured the tea, holding the silver pot high and letting the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
"Begin, my flute, with me Maenalian lays.
Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves
And whispering pines, and ever hears the songs
Of love-lorn shepherds, and of Pan, who first
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