| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: spirit, Asenath, that it pleases me to recognise. But we
waste time. Mr. Fonblanque's estate reverts, as you
doubtless imagine, to the Church; but some part of it has
been reserved for him who is to marry the family; and that
person, I should perhaps tell you without more delay, is no
other than myself.'
At this odious proposal my mother and I cried out aloud, and
clung together like lost souls.
'It is as I supposed,' resumed the doctor, with the same
measured utterance. 'You recoil from this arrangement. Do
you expect me to convince you? You know very well that I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: These tawny beaches will know much of me,
I shall come back, as constant and as changeful
As the unchanging, many-colored sea.
If life was small, if it has made me scornful,
Forgive me; I shall straighten like a flame
In the great calm of death, and if you want me
Stand on the sea-ward dunes and call my name.
Spray
I knew you thought of me all night,
I knew, though you were far away;
I felt your love blow over me
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: her, she said, nor promontories, chasms, or sand. She came to
Newport to be washed with salt-water; when she had washed up to the
doctor's prescription she should leave, as ignorant of the peculiar
pleasures of Newport as when she arrived. She had no fancy for its
conglomerate societies, its literary cottages, its parvenue suits
of rooms, its saloon habits, and its bathing herds.
I considered the rides a part of the contract of what was
expected in my two months' performance. I did not dream that I was
enjoying them, any more than I supposed myself to be enjoying a
sea-bath while pulling Aunt Eliza to and fro in the surf. Nothing
in the life around me stirred me, nothing in nature attracted me.
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