| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: Frau Brechenmacher turned round and looked towards the bride's mother. She
never took her eyes off her daughter, but wrinkled her brown forehead like
an old monkey, and nodded now and again very solemnly. Her hands shook as
she raised her beer mug, and when she had drunk she spat on the floor and
savagely wiped her mouth with her sleeve. Then the music started and she
followed Theresa with her eyes, looking suspiciously at each man who danced
with her.
"Cheer up, old woman," shouted her husband, digging her in the ribs; "this
isn't Theresa's funeral." He winked at the guests, who broke into loud
laughter.
"I AM cheerful," mumbled the old woman, and beat upon the table with her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: all days, when I can't make a fuss over you?"
Jock McChesney, bright-eyed, clear-skinned, steady of hand, stood
up well under the satisfied scrutiny of his adoring mother. He
smiled down at her.
"Wanted to surprise you. Here for three reasons--the Abbott
Grape-juice advertising contract, you, and Grace. And why can't
you make a fuss over me, I'd like to know?"
Emma told him. His keen, quick mind required little in the way
of explanation.
"But why didn't you let me in on it sooner?"
"Because, son, nothing explains harder than embryo success. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: steadying himself beside her there on the window-bench and with his
right hand grasping her left. "HE didn't come to me."
"You came to yourself," she beautifully smiled.
"Ah I've come to myself now - thanks to you, dearest. But this
brute, with his awful face - this brute's a black stranger. He's
none of ME, even as I MIGHT have been," Brydon sturdily declared.
But she kept the clearness that was like the breath of
infallibility. "Isn't the whole point that you'd have been
different?"
He almost scowled for it. "As different as THAT - ?"
Her look again was more beautiful to him than the things of this
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