| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: and clear traditions of the training college; she was one of those
she-creatures born to make all her m's and n's and u's and r's and e's
alike, and to leave her o's and a's open and her i's undotted. So that
it was only after an elaborate comparison of word with word that Miss
Winchelsea felt assured Mr. Snooks was not really "Mr. Snooks"
at all! In Fanny's first letter of gush he was Mr. "Snooks," in her
second the spelling was changed to Mr. "Senoks." Miss Winchelsea's
hand positively trembled as she turned the sheet over--it meant
so much to her. For it had already begun to seem to her that even
the name of Mrs. Snooks might be avoided at too great a price,
and suddenly--this possibility! She turned over the six sheets,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: ful about it all. A sweet nature is always rather
dreadful when it turns and strikes, and Annie struck
with the whole force of a nature with a foundation
of steel. She left nothing unsaid. She defended
herself and she accused her sisters as if before a
judge. Then came her ultimatum.
"To-morrow morning I am going over to Grand-
mother Loomis's house, and I am going to live there
a whole year," she declared, in a slow, steady voice.
"As you know, I have enough to live on, and -- in
order that no word of mine can be garbled and twisted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "So much the better," muttered Athos.
"I thought as much," said D'Artagnan, wasting his strength
in useless efforts. "Zounds, I thought as much when the
wretch kept moving around the room. I thought he was up to
something."
"It's a misfortune, to which his friend, the devil, treats
us," said Aramis.
"It's a piece of good fortune sent from Heaven," said Athos,
evidently much relieved.
"Really!" said D'Artagnan, abandoning the attempt to burst
open the panel after several ineffectual attempts, "Athos, I
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