| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: white setter dog, begged to follow him. Orde welcomed the animal's
company. He paused only long enough to telephone from the office
telling Carroll he would be out of town all day. Then he set out at
a long swinging gait over the hills. By the time the sun grew hot,
he was some miles from the village and in the high beech woods.
There he sat down, his back to a monster tree. All day long he
gazed steadily on the shifting shadows and splotches of sunlight; on
the patches of blue sky, the dazzling white clouds that sailed
across them; on the waving, whispering frond that over-arched him,
and the deep cool shadows beneath. The woods creatures soon became
accustomed to his presence. Squirrels of the several varieties that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: been noble, grand--he has a great soul.' "
"She hafe said dat, Eugenie?" cried the Baron.
"Yes, monsieur, to me, myself."
"Here--take dis ten louis."
"Thank you.--But she is crying at this moment; she has been crying
ever since yesterday as much as a weeping Magdalen could have cried in
six months. The woman you love is in despair, and for debts that are
not even hers! Oh! men--they devour women as women devour old fogies--
there!"
"Dey all is de same!--She hafe pledge' herself.--Vy, no one shall ever
pledge herself.--Tell her dat she shall sign noting more.--I shall
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: upon a building formerly made use of chiefly for landing from the
river, and therefore called the Water Galley, and here, as if she
had been conscious that she had but a few years to enjoy it, she
ordered all the little neat curious things to be done which suited
her own conveniences, and made it the pleasantest little thing
within doors that could possibly be made, though its situation
being such as it could not be allowed to stand after the great
building was finished, we now see no remains of it.
The queen had here her gallery of beauties, being the pictures at
full-length of the principal ladies attending upon her Majesty, or
who were frequently in her retinue; and this was the more beautiful
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