| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: and brought back word that he was sleeping and not to be
disturbed; and an hour later, when Anne lifted the tapestry and
listened at his door, she heard his loud regular breathing. She
thought it might be a feint, and stayed a long time barefooted in
the cold passage, her ear to the crack; but the breathing went on
too steadily and naturally to be other than that of a man in a
sound sleep. She crept back to her room reassured, and stood in
the window watching the moon set through the trees of the park.
The sky was misty and starless, and after the moon went down the
night was pitch black. She knew the time had come, and stole
along the passage, past her husband's door--where she stopped
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: difficulties in their own way.
"In order to give full security and protection to our trading
parties circulating in all directions through the great prairies,
I am under the impression that a few judicious measures on the
part of the government, involving a very limited expense, would
be sufficient. And, in attaining this end, which of itself has
already become an object of public interest and import, another,
of much greater consequence, might be
brought about, namely, the securing to the States a most valuable
and increasing trade, now carried on by caravans directly to
Santa Fe.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: in reading Greek books; and the girls, though they may not
learn Greek, will be sure to come across a great many stories
taken from Greek history, and to see, I may say every day,
things which we should not have had if it had not been for
these old Greeks. You can hardly find a well-written book
which has not in it Greek names, and words, and proverbs; you
cannot walk through a great town without passing Greek
buildings; you cannot go into a well-furnished room without
seeing Greek statues and ornaments, even Greek patterns of
furniture and paper; so strangely have these old Greeks left
their mark behind them upon this modern world in which we now
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