| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: about her. She knew that Mrs. Royall was sad and timid
and weak; she knew that lawyer Royall was harsh and
violent, and still weaker. She knew that she had been
christened Charity (in the white church at the other
end of the village) to commemorate Mr. Royall's
disinterestedness in "bringing her down," and to keep
alive in her a becoming sense of her dependence; she
knew that Mr. Royall was her guardian, but that he had
not legally adopted her, though everybody spoke of her
as Charity Royall; and she knew why he had come back to
live at North Dormer, instead of practising at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: cross-examinations, the alternate hope and fear. I believe I said
before that I had no nerves, but for a few minutes that morning I
was as near as a man ever comes to hysteria.
I folded my arms and gave myself a mental shake. I seemed to be
the center of a hundred eyes, expressing every shade of doubt and
distrust, but I tried not to flinch. Then some one created a
diversion.
The amateur detective was busy again with the seal-skin bag,
investigating the make of the safety razor and the manufacturer's
name on the bronze-green tie. Now, however, he paused and frowned,
as though some pet theory had been upset.
The Man in Lower Ten |
