| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: he would continue to stay, and his host must continue to endure him.
And Archie was now free - by devious paths, behind hillocks and in the
hollow of burns - to make for the trysting-place where Kirstie, cried
about by the curlew and the plover, waited and burned for his coming by
the Covenanter's stone.
Innes went off down-hill in a passion of resentment, easy to be
understood, but which yielded progressively to the needs of his
situation. He cursed Archie for a cold-hearted, unfriendly, rude, rude
dog; and himself still more passionately for a fool in having come to
Hermiston when he might have sought refuge in almost any other house in
Scotland. But the step once taken, was practically irretrievable. He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: "Somesing, somesing--yes!" he cried; "enough for a son of a
reech man--not enough for an orphan. Besides, I sought you
might learn to be an artist; I did not sink you might learn to be
a workman."
On a certain bench on the outer boulevard, not far from the
tomb of Napoleon, a bench shaded at that date by a shabby
tree, and commanding a view of muddy roadway and blank
wall, I sat down to wrestle with my misery. The weather was
cheerless and dark; in three days I had eaten but once; I had no
tobacco; my shoes were soaked, my trousers horrid with mire;
my humour and all the circumstances of the time and place
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: It came natural to me. That's all."
So then she got his story from him bit by bit. He spoke of the
farm and of Dike, and there was a great pride in his voice. He
spoke of Bella, and the son who had been killed, and of Minnie.
And the words came falteringly. He was trying to hide something,
and he was not made for deception. When he had finished:
"Now, listen, Ben. You go back to your farm."
"I can't. She--I can't."
She leaned forward, earnestly. "You go back to the farm."
He turned up his palms with a little gesture of defeat. "I
can't."
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