| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: and that no mortal eye has ever yet seen me sew or cook.
But why cook when you can get some one to cook for you?
And as for sewing, the maids will hem the sheets better and
quicker than I could, and all forms of needlework of the fancy
order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish
from applying their heart to wisdom.
We had been married five years before it struck us that we
might as well make use of this place by coming down and living
in it. Those five years were spent in a flat in a town,
and during their whole interminable length I was perfectly
miserable and perfectly healthy, which disposes of the ugly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Why should he not know it?"
"Ah!" she burst out passionately, "why not, indeed, while you are
here? You, sir, the tempter, you the eavesdropper, you the
sunderer of loving hearts! You, serpent, who found our home a
paradise, and see it now a hell!"
"Do you dare to accuse me thus, madam, without a shadow of
evidence?"
"Dare? I dare anything, for I know all! I have watched you, sir,
and I have borne with you too long."
"Me, madam, whose only sin towards you, as you should know by now,
is to have loved you too well? Rose! Rose! have you not blighted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back,
"Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?"
"No," said the other.
"Then I'll tell you. It is because people think only about
their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up
for the oppressed, nor bring the wrongdoer to light.
I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can,
and many a master has thanked me for letting him know
how his horses have been used."
"I wish there were more gentlemen like you, sir," said Jerry,
"for they are wanted badly enough in this city."
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