| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: sympathised with the old hag.
Squatting on her heels, Viola opened the letter. It was from Casimir:
"I shall be with you at three o'clock this afternoon--and must be off again
this evening. All news when we meet. I hope you are happier than I.--
CASIMIR."
"Huh! how kind!" she sneered; "how condescending. Too good of you,
really!" She sprang to her feet, crumbling the letter in her hands. "And
how are you to know that I shall stick here awaiting your pleasure until
three o'clock this afternoon?" But she knew she would; her rage was only
half sincere. She longed to see Casimir, for she was confident that this
time she would make him understand the situation..."For, as it is, it's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: question of where to go. In a rash moment Jill murmured
something about Montenegro.
"Montenegro?" said Berry, with a carelessness that should have
put her on her guard.
"Yes," said Jill. "I heard someone talking about it when I was
dining with the Bedells. It sounded priceless. I had a sort of
idea it was quite small, and had a prince, but it's really quite
big, and it's got a king over it, and they all wear the old
picturesque dress, and the scenery's gorgeous. And, if it was
wet, we could go to the- the- "
"Kursaal," said Berry. "No, not Kursaal. It's like that,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: world. The idea held a daily pathos for them. Many had themselves been
through such leave takings; and no word so stirs the general heart as the
word 'mother'. Song writers know this; and the artist knew it when he
decided to paint 'Breaking Home Ties.' And 'Mother' is the title of my
story to-night."
"Mother!" This was Ethel's bewildered echo, "Whose Mother?" she softly
murmured to herself.
Richard continued. "It concerns the circumstances under which I became
engaged to my wife."
There was a movement from Ethel as she sat by the sofa.
"Not all the circumstances, of course," the narrator continued, with a
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