| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: and in a few weeks after, either to revenge our Conduct, or
releive her own solitude, married a young and illiterate Fortune-
hunter. This imprudent step (tho' we were sensible that it would
probably deprive us of that fortune which Philippa had ever
taught us to expect) could not on our own accounts, excite from
our exalted minds a single sigh; yet fearfull lest it might prove
a source of endless misery to the deluded Bride, our trembling
Sensibility was greatly affected when we were first informed of
the Event.The affectionate Entreaties of Augustus and Sophia that
we would for ever consider their House as our Home, easily
prevailed on us to determine never more to leave them, In the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: ignorant of the care which he took of his favourite.
"And mind be sure and tell him that grannie and the titties, and,
abune a', Grace and mysell, are weel and thriving, and that it's
a' his doing--that canna but please him, ane wad think."
And Elliot and the family at Heugh-foot were, and continued to
be, as fortunate and happy as his undaunted honesty, tenderness,
and gallantry so well merited.
All bar between the marriage of Earnscliff and Isabella was now
removed, and the settlements which Ratcliffe produced on the part
of Sir Edward Mauley, might have satisfied the cupidity of
Ellieslaw himself. But Miss Vere and Ratcliffe thought it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand,
waiting to consume her. With the departure of the boy
all visible animation disappeared from the landscape,
though the intermittent husky notes of the male grasshoppers
from every tuft of furze were enough to show that amid
the prostration of the larger animal species an unseen
insect world was busy in all the fullness of life.
In two hours she reached a slope about three-fourths the
whole distance from Alderworth to her own home, where a
little patch of shepherd's-thyme intruded upon the path;
and she sat down upon the perfumed mat it formed there.
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