| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: good nature--
MRS. CANDOUR. I confess Mr. Surface I cannot bear to hear People
traduced behind their Backs[;] and when ugly circumstances come out
against our acquaintances I own I always love to think the best--by
the bye I hope 'tis not true that your Brother is absolutely ruin'd--
SURFACE. I am afraid his circumstances are very bad indeed, Ma'am--
MRS. CANDOUR. Ah! I heard so--but you must tell him to keep up
his Spirits--everybody almost is in the same way--Lord Spindle,
Sir Thomas Splint, Captain Quinze, and Mr. Nickit--all up, I hear,
within this week; so, if Charles is undone, He'll find half his
Acquaintance ruin'd too, and that, you know, is a consolation--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: your abduction," he explained simply, "and I was hastening
to the jeddak, your father, to convince him of the falsity
of the charge, and to give my service to your recovery.
Before I left Helium some one tampered with my compass,
so that it bore me to Aaanthor instead of to Ptarth.
That is all. You believe me?"
"But the warriors who stole me from the garden!" she
exclaimed. "After we arrived at Aaanthor they wore the
metal of the Prince of Helium. When they took me they
were trapped in Dusarian harness. There seemed but a
single explanation. Whoever dared the outrage wished
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: battle, got in that last frightful peck! But what had led Hortense, after
she had come through pretty well, to lose her temper and thus, at the
finish, expose to Eliza her weakest position? That her clothes were paid
for by a Newport lady who had taken her to Worth, that her wedding feast
was to be paid for by the bridegroom, these were not facts which Eliza
would deign to use as weapons; but she was marrying inside the doors of
Eliza's Kings Port, that had never opened to admit her before, and she
had slipped into putting this chance into Eliza's hand--and how had she
come to do this?
To be sure, my vision had been slow! Hortense had seen, through her thick
veil, Eliza's interest in John in the first minute of her arrival on the
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