| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: into its obscurest corner, shivering under the thin black mantle
which had seemed so hot in July. She began to feel a little
bewildered as she stepped ashore, but a paternal policeman put her
into the right car, and as in a dream she found herself retracing
the way to Mrs. Hochmuller's door. She had told the conductor the
name of the street at which she wished to get out, and presently
she stood in the biting wind at the corner near the beer-saloon,
where the sun had once beat down on her so fiercely. At length an
empty car appeared, its yellow flank emblazoned with the name of
Mrs. Hochmuller's suburb, and Ann Eliza was presently jolting past
the narrow brick houses islanded between vacant lots like giant
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: evil thing had stung him, and soon forgot his pain in a reverie
of Beatrice.
After the first interview, a second was in the inevitable course
of what we call fate. A third; a fourth; and a meeting with
Beatrice in the garden was no longer an incident in Giovanni's
daily life, but the whole space in which he might be said to
live; for the anticipation and memory of that ecstatic hour made
up the remainder. Nor was it otherwise with the daughter of
Rappaccini. She watched for the youth's appearance, and flew to
his side with confidence as unreserved as if they had been
playmates from early infancy--as if they were such playmates
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: any way prevent you finding me a forward and obedient servant to
all your commands, be they what they may, and a supporter of your
authority among the men, and honor against the foe, even with my
life. For I should he ashamed if private differences should ever
prejudice by a grain the public weal."
This was a great effort of oratory for Amyas; and he therefore, in
order to be safe by following precedent, tried to talk as much as
he could like Sir Richard Grenville. Of course Winter could answer
nothing to it, in spite of the plain hint of private differences,
but that he should not fail to show himself a captain worthy of so
valiant and trusty a gentleman; whereon the whole party turned
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