| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: And doth gret Senne, if that he wonde.
For who that lawe hath upon honde,
And spareth forto do justice
For merci, doth noght his office,
That he his mercy so bewareth,
Whan for o schrewe which he spareth 2220
A thousand goode men he grieveth:
With such merci who that believeth
To plese god, he is deceived,
Or elles resoun mot be weyved.
The lawe stod er we were bore,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: girls don't take to it so naturally, and they get very
tired, and it has seemed often that I was the one
who could hurry the work through and not mind."
"I wonder if you will stick up for me the way you
do for your sisters when you are my wife?" said
Tom, with a burst of love and admiration. Then
he added: "Of course you are going to be my wife,
Annie? You know what this means?"
"If you think I will make you as good a wife as
you can find," said Annie.
"As good a wife! Annie, do you really know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: sounded from behind the largest wool shed, that had a trail of smoke
hanging over it, "Mia-oo-oo-O-O!"
"First whistle," said her father briefly, and at that moment they came in
sight of the Picton boat. Lying beside the dark wharf, all strung, all
beaded with round golden lights, the Picton boat looked as if she was more
ready to sail among stars than out into the cold sea. People pressed along
the gangway. First went her grandma, then her father, then Fenella. There
was a high step down on to the deck, and an old sailor in a jersey standing
by gave her his dry, hard hand. They were there; they stepped out of the
way of the hurrying people, and standing under a little iron stairway that
led to the upper deck they began to say good-bye.
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