| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: arrival in town, and was met with such an easy and cheerful affection, as
made her almost turn from her with horror. No remembrance of Reginald, no
consciousness of guilt, gave one look of embarrassment; she was in
excellent spirits, and seemed eager to show at once by ever possible
attention to her brother and sister her sense of their kindness, and her
pleasure in their society. Frederica was no more altered than Lady Susan;
the same restrained manners, the same timid look in the presence of her
mother as heretofore, assured her aunt of her situation being
uncomfortable, and confirmed her in the plan of altering it. No unkindness,
however, on the part of Lady Susan appeared. Persecution on the subject of
Sir James was entirely at an end; his name merely mentioned to say that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: precious horn, trembling between hope and fear, and blushing with
maidenly shame, and a half-sense of wrong-doing at having revealed
suddenly to a stranger the darling wish which he had hidden from
his father and mother ever since he was ten years old.
Now this young gentleman, Amyas Leigh, though come of as good blood
as any in Devon, and having lived all his life in what we should
even now call the very best society, and being (on account of the
valor, courtesy, and truly noble qualities which he showed forth in
his most eventful life) chosen by me as the hero and centre of this
story, was not, saving for his good looks, by any means what would
be called now-a-days an "interesting" youth, still less a "highly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: before we got to the stores. Then everybody vamoosed except some
surprised rustlers in front of a saloon. Venters went right in
the stores an' saloons, an' of course I went along. I don't know
which tickled me the most--the actions of many fellers we met, or
Venters's nerve. Jane, I was downright glad to be along. You see
that sort of thing is my element, an' I've been away from it for
a spell. But we didn't find Tull in one of them places. Some
Gentile feller at last told Venters he'd find Tull in that long
buildin' next to Parsons's store. It's a kind of meetin'-room;
and sure enough, when we peeped in, it was half full of men.
"Venters yelled: 'Don't anybody pull guns! We ain't come for
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