| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: rack.'
'Pooh! an elderly woman who keeps a stationer's shop; and it was
to tell her to keep my newspapers till I get back.'
'You needn't have explained: it was not my business at all.' Miss
Elfride was rather relieved to hear that statement, nevertheless.
'And you won't come again to see my father?' she insisted.
'I should like to--and to see you again, but----'
'Will you reveal to me that matter you hide?' she interrupted
petulantly.
'No; not now.'
She could not but go on, graceless as it might seem.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: Hardmans during which she had appeared every night on the stage
as a boy without the deception being suspected. She had
cultivated the tricks and ways of boys, had tried to dress to
carry out the impression, and had always succeeded until she had
made the mistake of putting on a gypsy girl's dress a couple of
days before.
Carmencita heard her out, but not as a judge. Very early in the
story her doubts fled and she succumbed to the mothering instinct
in her. She took the American girl in her arms and laughed and
cried with her; for her imagination seized on the romance of the
story and delighted in its fresh unconventionality. Since she had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: cooked into biscuits, hot-cakes and bread, three times a day and
every day, and all one wanted! Such prodigality was hardly
believable.
To add to her contentment, the Factor was cunningly kind. He had
buried one wife, and he knew how to drive with a slack rein that
went firm only on occasion, and then went very firm. "Lit-lit is
boss of this place," he announced significantly at the table the
morning after the wedding. "What she says goes. Understand?" And
McLean and McTavish understood. Also, they knew that the Factor
had a heavy hand.
But Lit-lit did not take advantage. Taking a leaf from the book of
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