| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: At a rapid trot the men moved forward behind the ex-
treme left end of the Luthanian left wing. They were almost
upon the Austrians before they emerged from the shelter of
the wood, and then with hoarse shouts and leveled bayonets
they charged the enemy's position. The fight there was the
bloodiest of the two long days. Back and forth the tide of
battle surged. In the thick of it rode the false king en-
couraging his men to greater effort. Slowly at last they bore
the Austrians from their trenches. Back and back they bore
them until retreat became a rout. The Austrian right was
crumpled back upon its center!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: Her eyes triumphed for him. "In less!"
"The cursed irony of it! What do I care for the man I shall be
then? It's slaving one's life away for a stranger!" He took her
hands abruptly. "You'll go to Cannes, I suppose, or Monte Carlo?
I heard Hollingsworth say to-day that he meant to take his yacht
over to the Mediterranean--"
She released herself. "If you think that--"
"I don't. I almost wish I did. It would be easier, I mean." He
broke off incoherently. "I believe your Aunt Virginia does,
though. She somehow connotes Hollingsworth and the
Mediterranean." He caught her hands again. "Alexa--if we could
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: if she had to go to bed at half past eight she would keep the shawl on.
Which resolution comforted her absolutely.
"Now, then, where are my clothes?" cried Herr Brechenmacher, hanging his
empty letter-bag behind the door and stamping the snow out of his boots.
"Nothing ready, of course, and everybody at the wedding by this time. I
heard the music as I passed. What are you doing? You're not dressed. You
can't go like that."
"Here they are--all ready for you on the table, and some warm water in the
tin basin. Dip your head in. Rosa, give your father the towel.
Everything ready except the trousers. I haven't had time to shorten them.
You must tuck the ends into your boots until we get there."
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