| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: uncovered as he spoke, "it is the truth. Your father
told me it in so many words when I asked his permission
to pay court to you myself--you are to marry Number
Thirteen when his education is complete."
"I shall die first!" she cried.
"Why not accept me instead?" suggested the man.
For a moment Virginia looked straight into his eyes as
though to read his inmost soul.
"Let me have time to consider it, Doctor," she replied.
"I do not know that I care for you in that way at all."
"Think of Number Thirteen," he suggested. "It should
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: probably should have done so had not one of the ladies of our
party, snatching a place at his other elbow, just then appealed to
him in a spirit comparatively selfish. It was very discouraging:
I almost felt the liberty had been taken with myself.
I had had on my tongue's end, for my own part, a phrase or two
about the right word at the right time; but later on I was glad not
to have spoken, for when on our return we clustered at tea I
perceived Lady Jane, who had not been out with us, brandishing THE
MIDDLE with her longest arm. She had taken it up at her leisure;
she was delighted with what she had found, and I saw that, as a
mistake in a man may often be a felicity in a woman, she would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: [She lets it go. It falls on the turf]. Oh, youve given your
little boy such a turn. Suppose it had gone off! ugh! [He sinks
on the garden seat, overcome].
VIVIE. Suppose it had: do you think it would not have been a
relief to have some sharp physical pain tearing through me?
FRANK [coaxingly] Take it ever so easy, dear Viv. Remember: even
if the rifle scared that fellow into telling the truth for the
first time in his life, that only makes us the babes in the woods
in earnest. [He holds out his arms to her]. Come and be covered
up with leaves again.
VIVIE [with a cry of disgust] Ah, not that, not that. You make
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