| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: growing more and more desperate at the turn affairs had taken.
She resolved to put a stop to his nonsense and to make him
realise that she and no one else was the lode star of his
existence. She beckoned to Aggie to get out of the room and to
leave her a clear field and as soon as her friend had gone
quietly into the next room, she called impatiently to Alfred who
was still cooing rapturously over the young stranger. Finding
Alfred deaf to her first entreaty, Zoie shut her lips hard,
rearranged her pretty head-dress, drew one fascinating little
curl down over her shoulder, reknotted the pink ribbon of her
negligee, and then issued a final and imperious order for her
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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: any soul or body after pronouncing a certain formula.
If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven
o'clock and midnight on their way home from the Ambigu Comique, I used
to amuse myself by following them from the Boulevard du Pont aux Choux
to the Boulevard Beaumarchais. The good folk would begin by talking
about the play; then from one thing to another they would come to
their own affairs, and the mother would walk on and on, heedless of
complaints or question from the little one that dragged at her hand,
while she and her husband reckoned up the wages to be paid on the
morrow, and spent the money in a score of different ways. Then came
domestic details, lamentations over the excessive dearness of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: were looked forward to with considerable pleasure, and frequented
not only by citizens bent on sport, but by courtiers in search of
adventure.
Nay, even her majesty was tempted on one occasion to go a-
fairing, as we gather from a letter addressed to Sir Robert
Paston, contained in Ives's select papers. "Last week," says the
writer thereof, "the queen, the Duchess of Richmond, and the
Duchess of Buckingham had a frolick to disguise themselves like
country lasses, in red petticoates, waistcoates, etc., and so goe
see the faire. Sir Bernard Gascoign, on a cart jade, rode before
the queen; another stranger before the Duchess of Buckingham, and
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