| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: the door.
He rose and walked to the entrance with the careful tread of
one conscious of his alcoholic load. Some others followed,
and they stood looking into the twilight. The difference
between the peacefulness of inferior nature and the wilful
hostilities of mankind was very apparent at this place. In
contrast with the harshness of the act just ended within the
tent was the sight of several horses crossing their necks
and rubbing each other lovingly as they waited in patience
to be harnessed for the homeward journey. Outside the fair,
in the valleys and woods, all was quiet. The sun had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: `Annie, there is a thing upon my mind,
And it has been upon my mind so long,
That tho' I know not when it first came there,
I know that it will out at last. O Annie,
It is beyond all hope, against all chance,
That he who left you ten long years ago
Should still be living; well then--let me speak:
I grieve to see you poor and wanting help:
I cannot help you as I wish to do
Unless--they say that women are so quick--
Perhaps you know what I would have you know--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Eastern Andes, if, as was but too likely, the old man, believing
her to be Oxenham's child, had conceived the fearful vengeance of
exposing her in the forests.
Other little facts came to light one by one. They were all
connected (as was natural in a savage) with some animal or other
natural object. Whatever impressions her morals or affections had
received, had been erased by the long spiritual death of that
forest sojourn; and Mrs. Leigh could not elicit from her a trace of
feeling about her mother, or recollection of any early religious
teaching. This link, however, was supplied at last, and in this
way.
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