| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: And by and by the people, when they met
In twos and threes, or fuller companies,
Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him
As of a prince whose manhood was all gone,
And molten down in mere uxoriousness.
And this she gathered from the people's eyes:
This too the women who attired her head,
To please her, dwelling on his boundless love,
Told Enid, and they saddened her the more:
And day by day she thought to tell Geraint,
But could not out of bashful delicacy;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: sudden change of plan may make him think..."
Oh, she saw his inevitable logic: the horror of it was on
every side of her! It had seemed possible to control her
grief and face Darrow calmly while she was upheld by the
belief that this was their last hour together, that after he
had passed out of the room there would be no fear of seeing
him again, no fear that his nearness, his look, his voice,
and all the unseen influences that flowed from him, would
dissolve her soul to weakness. But her courage failed at the
idea of having to conspire with him to shield Owen, of
keeping up with him, for Owen's sake, a feint of union and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: hell's darkest corner.--And thou, Leicester, is it possible thou
couldst bid me for a moment deny my wedded right in thee, or
thyself yield it to another?--But it is impossible--the villain
has lied in all.--Janet, I will not remain here longer--I fear
him--I fear thy father. I grieve to say it, Janet--but I fear
thy father, and, worst of all, this odious Varney, I will escape
from Cumnor."
"Alas! madam, whither would you fly, or by what means will you
escape from these walls?"
"I know not, Janet," said the unfortunate young lady, looking
upwards! and clasping her hands together, "I know not where I
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