| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "I fancy they are always up to some game of that sort," Beaumont continued.
"They can't be worse than they are in England," said Lord Lambeth judicially.
"Ah, but in England," replied Beaumont, "you have got your
natural protectors. You have got your mother and sisters."
"My mother and sisters--" began the young nobleman with a certain energy.
But he stopped in time, puffing at his cigar.
"Your mother spoke to me about it, with tears in her eyes,"
said Percy Beaumont. "She said she felt very nervous.
I promised to keep you out of mischief."
"You had better take care of yourself," said the object of maternal
and ducal solicitude.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: The dangers of his loathsome enterprise,
And in his inward mind he doth debate
What following sorrow may on this arise;
Then looking scornfully, he doth despise
His naked armour of still-slaughter'd lust,
And justly thus controls his thoughts unjust:
'Fair torch, burn out thy light, and lend it not
To darken her whose light excelleth thine:
And die, unhallow'd thoughts, before you blot
With your uncleanness that which is divine!
Offer pure incense to so pure a shrine:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Who saw the Bible in his chest,
And made a sign upon his breast,
All evil things to ban.
III
The cabin windows have grown blank
As eyeballs of the dead;
No more the glancing sunbeams burn
On the gilt letters of the stern,
But on the figure-head;
On Valdemar Victorious,
Who looketh with disdain
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