| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: Alexa left the breakfast-table before him and when he went up to
the drawing-room he found her dressed to go out.
"Aren't you a little early for church?" he asked.
She replied that, on the way there, she meant to stop a moment at
her mother's; and while she drew on her gloves, he fumbled among
the knick-knacks on the mantel-piece for a match to light his
cigarette.
"Well, good-by," she said, turning to go; and from the threshold
she added: "By the way, I've sorted the papers you gave me. Those
that I thought you would like to keep are on your study-table."
She went downstairs and he heard the door close behind her.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: perhaps next year, if it lies where it is; or perhaps it will be
washed into the brook, and then into the river, and go down to the
sea, and will feed the roots of some plant in some new continent
ages and ages hence: and so Madam How will have her own again.
You dropped your stick into the river yesterday, and it floated
away. You were sorry, because it had cost you a great deal of
trouble to cut it, and peel it, and carve a head and your name on
it. Madam How was not sorry, though she had taken a great deal
more trouble with that stick than ever you had taken. She had
been three years making that stick, out of many things, sunbeams
among the rest. But when it fell into the river, Madam How knew
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: among the slaughtered and with pistols blew out the brains of any
who still moved.
"These butchers, you say, are Germans?" asked Oro of me.
"Yes," I answered, sick with horror, for though I was in the
mind and not in the body, I could feel as the mind does. Had I
been in the body also, I should have fainted.
"Then we need not waste time in visiting their country. It is
enough; let us go on."
We passed out into the open land and came to a village. It was
in the occupation of German cavalry. Two of them held a little
girl of nine or ten, one by her body, the other by her right
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