| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: nook he squeezed himself, and gazed wistfully up into Elfride's
face. So long and so earnestly gazed he, that her cheek deepened
to a more and more crimson tint as each line was added to her
song. Concluding, and pausing motionless after the last word for
a minute or two, she ventured to look at him again. His features
wore an expression of unutterable heaviness.
'You don't hear many songs, do you, Mr. Smith, to take so much
notice of these of mine?'
'Perhaps it was the means and vehicle of the song that I was
noticing: I mean yourself,' he answered gently.
'Now, Mr. Smith!'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: quite close. The fawn will keep perfectly still, glued[13] as it were
to earth, and with loud bleats suffer itself to be picked up; unless
it happen to be drenched with rain; in which case, it will not stay
quiet in one place. No doubt, the internal moisture of the animal
congeals quickly with the cold[14] and causes it to shift its ground.
Caught in that case it must needs be; but the hounds will have work
enough to run the creature down.[15] The huntsman having seized the
fawn, will hand it to the keeper. The bleating will continue; and the
hind, partly seeing and partly hearing, will bear down full tilt upon
the man who has got her young, in her desire to rescue it. Now is the
moment to urge on the hounds and ply the javelins. And so having
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: offended has made him mad. We think he has offended the moon.
MYRRHINA. Go and tell him that one who has come from Alexandria
desires to speak with him.
FIRST MAN. We dare not tell him. This hour he is praying to his
God. We pray thee to pardon us for not doing thy bidding.
MYRRHINA. Are ye afraid, of him?
FIRST MAN. We are afraid of him.
MYRRHINA. Why are ye afraid of him?
FIRST MAN. We do not know.
MYRRHINA. What is his name?
FIRST MAN. The voice that speaks to him at night time in the cavern
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