| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: in conversation with General Tilney; and she felt something
more than surprise when she thought she could perceive
herself the object of their attention and discourse.
What could they have to say of her? She feared General
Tilney did not like her appearance: she found it was
implied in his preventing her admittance to his daughter,
rather than postpone his own walk a few minutes. "How came
Mr. Thorpe to know your father?" was her anxious inquiry,
as she pointed them out to her companion. He knew nothing
about it; but his father, like every military man,
had a very large acquaintance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: rage, appeared. After an instant of amazement, he sprang to her
and clasped her in his arms, and she, against her will, and
protesting voicelessly, stumbled into his embrace.
"You are frozen to death," he exclaimed, carrying her to the
fire. "This seal jacket is like a sheet of ice. So is your face"
(kissing it). "What is the matter? Why do you struggle so?"
"Let me go," she gasped, in a vehement whisper. "I h--hate you."
"My poor love, you are too cold to hate anyone-- even your
husband. You must let me take off these atrocious French boots.
Your feet must be perfectly dead."
By this time her voice and tears were thawing in the warmth of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: again. I've looked all over the car and can't find him. He must have
been gone an hour. I remember hearin' somethin' rustlin' along the
floor, but I thought it was you."
"Oh, blame that old rascal!" exclaimed the Queen, throwing down her
paper. "This is the third time he's got away. George never /will/
fasten down the lid to his box properly. I do believe he's /afraid/ of
Kuku. Now I've got to go hunt him."
"Better hurry; somebody might hurt him."
The Queen's teeth showed in a gleaming, contemptuous smile. "No
danger. When they see Kuku outside they simply scoot away and buy
bromides. There's a crick over between here and the river. That old
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