| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: I don't know how it was,--I hope he did not think
me indelicate,--but I asked him, I believe, to sit
down, or pointed to a chair. He sat down, and, in-
stead of having recourse to observations upon the
weather, or hackneyed criticisms upon the theatre, he
entered readily into a conversation worthy a man of
sense to speak, and a lady of delicacy and sentiment
to hear. He was not strictly handsome, but he spoke
the language of sentiment, and his eyes looked tender-
ness and honour.
CHARLOTTE
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Otherwise, all goes on here much as always.
Why won't you come and see us, in the spring,
And bring old times with you?--If you could see me
Sitting here by the window, watching Venus
Go down behind my neighbor's poplar branches,--
Just where you used to sit,--I'm sure you'd come.
This year, they say, the springtime will be early.
XI. CONVERSATION: UNDERTONES
What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai?
You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me;
You smile a little. . . .Outside, the night goes by.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: among them, than that those twelve poor boys should have fallen at
Doornkop, fighting to fill up the pockets of those already oe'r-heavy with
gold.'
"And she said, 'YOU, what does it matter what you feel or think; YOU will
never be able to do anything!'
"And he said, 'Oh my wife, stand by me; do not crush me. For me in this
matter there is no path but one on which light shines.'
"And she said, 'You are very unkind; you don't care what the people say
about us!' and she wept bitterly, and went out of the room. But as soon as
the door was shut, she dried her tears; and she said to herself, 'Now he
will never dare to preach such a sermon again. He dares never oppose me
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