| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: armour for a clerk in holy orders, I can never see. Tell me the
meaning, for if there is a man in all the world that knows it,
I am sure it is thou."
So Winfried took the book and closed it, clasping the
boy's hand with his own.
"Let us first dismiss the others to their vespers said he,
"lest they should be weary."
A sign from the abbess; a chanted benediction; a murmuring
of sweet voices and a soft rustling of many feet over the
rushes on the floor; the gentle tide of noise flowed out
through the doors and ebbed away down the corridors; the three
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: another they stopped.
As they came to a halt, Myles observed that a gentleman dressed
in a plain blue-gray riding- habit, and sitting upon a beautiful
white gelding, stood a little in advance of the rest of the
party, and he knew that that must be the King. Then Sir James
nodded to Myles, and leaping from his horse, flung the reins to
one of the attendants. Myles did the like; and then, still
following Sir James's lead as he served Lord Mackworth, went
forward and held Lord George's stirrup while he dismounted. The
two noblemen quickly removed each his bascinet, and Myles,
holding the bridle- rein of Lord George's horse with his left
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: her hostess, who went on in her low, reasonable voice.
"I want to leave my children bright and comfortable.
You seem to me all so happy here--just as you are.
So I wish you could stay. It would be so pleasant for Robert."
Eugenia wondered what she meant by its being pleasant for Robert;
but she felt that she would never know what such a woman as that meant.
She got up; she was afraid Mrs. Acton would tell her again
that she was dying. "Good-by, dear madame," she said.
"I must remember that your strength is precious."
Mrs. Acton took her hand and held it a moment. "Well, you have
been happy here, have n't you? And you like us all, don't you?
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