| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: once inaccessible nests could be examined microscopically; and on
swaying extremities where birds alone had perched, the by-standers
sat down.
As soon as it was broad daylight the doctor came, and Winterborne
entered the house with him. Marty said that her father was
wrapped up and ready, as usual, to be put into his chair. They
ascended the stairs, and soon seated him. He began at once to
complain of the tree, and the danger to his life and Winterborne's
house-property in consequence.
The doctor signalled to Giles, who went and drew back the printed
cotton curtains. "'Tis gone, see," said Mr. Fitzpiers.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: and desirous, subject to all the frailties of his sex, holding
experiences in his past that had left him far from a puritan. And
she was a woman, of unschooled impulses, with unsuspected banked
passions, an innocent creature in whom primeval physical life
rioted.
He moved toward the door, his left fist beating into the palm of
his right hand. He must protect her, against himself--and against
her innocent affection for him.
She fluttered past him, barring the way. Her cheeks were flaming
with shame.
"You despise me. Why did I let you?" A sob swelled up into her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: she ended. "That unapproachable combination of vowel sounds
prepares one better than anything I know for the contemplation of
the picture."
As he spoke the folds of velvet slowly parted, and the Leonardo
appeared in its frame of tarnished gold:
From the nature of Miss Lombard's recitation Wyant had expected a
sacred subject, and his surprise was therefore great as the
composition was gradually revealed by the widening division of
the curtain.
In the background a steel-colored river wound through a pale
calcareous landscape; while to the left, on a lonely peak, a
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