| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: There was a long silence.
"Well, you look a little like Longstreth," finally said Mrs.
Laramie, "but you're not at ALL like him. You must take after
your mother. Miss Longstreth, I don't know if I can--if I ought
accept anything from you. Your father ruined my husband."
"Yes, I know," replied the girl, sadly. "That's all the more
reason you should let me help you. Pray don't refuse. It will--
mean so much to me."
If this poor, stricken woman had any resentment it speedily
melted in the warmth and sweetness of Miss Longstreth's manner.
Duane's idea was that the impression of Ray Longstreth's beauty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.
The opinion was also whispered that my master was
my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I
know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld
from me. My mother and I were separated when I
was but an infant--before I knew her as my mother.
It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland
from which I ran away, to part children from their
mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the
child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is
taken from it, and hired out on some farm a con-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: front. But if you will remember my yesterday's toothache and this
morning's crick, you will be in a position to choose an adjective
for yourself. Not that the wind is unhealthy; only when it comes
strong, it is both very high and very cold, which makes it the d-v-
l. But as I am writing to a lady, I had better avoid this topic;
winds requiring a great scope of language.
Please remember me to all at home; give Ramsay a pennyworth of
acidulated drops for his good taste. - And believe me, your
affectionate cousin,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO MISS FERRIER
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