| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: so persuasive."
"Well, I ought to know the way to my own house. There is only one
way, along the right path."
"Uh uh. The right path looks bad. I just can't believe it leads to
your house. You probably don't remember correctly."
"You'll get lost if you don't come this way. The other fork dead
ends. The only thing there is a swamp, a pit, and a snake."
"It can't be. It looks so well traveled. And I have such a feeling
that it will take me to your house; I've got to try it."
* * *
"Hi. Hop in."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: complete as he had imagined, and deemed desirable for her
happiness? If she did so she must in some measure become the
apologist of her husband, and she was not prepared to go so far.
As for him, he kept her in a mood of considerate gravity. He
certainly had changed. He had at his worst times always been
gentle in his manner towards her. Could it be that she might make
of him a true and worthy husband yet? She had married him; there
was no getting over that; and ought she any longer to keep him at
a distance? His suave deference to her lightest whim on the
question of his comings and goings, when as her lawful husband he
might show a little independence, was a trait in his character as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: sinned in one instance: but, as far as I can see, only in that one--I
mean against what he must have known to be right. I allude to his
relaxing in his own case those wise restrictions on polygamy which he
had proclaimed. And yet, even in this case, the desire for a child may
have been the true cause of his weakness. He did not see the whole
truth, of course: but he was an infinitely better man than the men
around: perhaps, all in all, one of the best men of his day. Many here
may have read Mr. Carlyle's vindication of Mohammed in his Lectures on
Hero Worship; to those who have not, I shall only say, that I entreat
them to do so; and that I assure them, that though I differ in many
things utterly from Mr. Carlyle's inferences and deductions in that
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