| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "Repeat! Repeat!" said Miss Meadows. "More expression, girls! Once
more!"
"Fast! Ah, too Fast." The older girls were crimson; some of the younger
ones began to cry. Big spots of rain blew against the windows, and one
could hear the willows whispering, "...not that I do not love you..."
"But, my darling, if you love me," thought Miss Meadows, "I don't mind how
much it is. Love me as little as you like." But she knew he didn't love
her. Not to have cared enough to scratch out that word "disgust," so that
she couldn't read it! "Soon Autumn yields unto Winter Drear." She would
have to leave the school, too. She could never face the Science Mistress
or the girls after it got known. She would have to disappear somewhere.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Are we to stand here a' day, sirs," exclaimed one tall young
man, "and look at the burnt wa's of our kinsman's house? Every
wreath of the reek is a blast of shame upon us! Let us to horse,
and take the chase.--Who has the nearest bloodhound?"
"It's young Earnscliff," answered another; "and he's been on and
away wi' six horse lang syne, to see if he can track them."
"Let us follow him then, and raise the country, and mak mair help
as we ride, and then have at the Cumberland reivers! Take, burn,
and slay--they that lie nearest us shall smart first."
"Whisht! haud your tongues, daft callants," said an old man, "ye
dinna ken what ye speak about. What! wad ye raise war atween two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: things, or rather to matters of historical fact?"
Sir Nathaniel bowed acquiescence.
"We have already spoken of the history, so far as it is known, of
some of the places round us--'Castra Regis,' 'Diana's Grove,' and
'The Lair of the White Worm.' I would like to ask if there is
anything not necessarily of evil import about any of the places?"
"Which?" asked Sir Nathaniel shrewdly.
"Well, for instance, this house and Mercy Farm?"
"Here we turn," said Sir Nathaniel, "to the other side, the light
side of things. Let us take Mercy Farm first. When Augustine was
sent by Pope Gregory to Christianise England, in the time of the
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