| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: LADY CAROLINE. It is not customary in England, Miss Worsley, for a
young lady to speak with such enthusiasm of any person of the
opposite sex. English women conceal their feelings till after they
are married. They show them then.
HESTER. Do you, in England, allow no friendship to exist between a
young man and a young girl?
[Enter LADY HUNSTANTON, followed by Footman with shawls and a
cushion.]
LADY CAROLINE. We think it very inadvisable. Jane, I was just
saying what a pleasant party you have asked us to meet. You have a
wonderful power of selection. It is quite a gift.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: refuge with assumed unconsciousness of anything having happened. Many
citizens who knew the ranger pointed out to him with alacrity the
course of Garcia's retreat.
As Buckley swung along upon the trail he felt the beginning of the
suffocating constriction about his throat, the cold sweat under the
brim of his hat, the old, shameful, dreaded sinking of his heart as it
went down, down, down in his bosom.
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The morning train of the Mexican Central had that day been three hours
late, thus failing to connect with the I. & G.N. on the other side of
the river. Passengers for /Los Estados Unidos/ grumblingly sought
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: would not tell it in a book intended to be read only by Scotsmen,
who know or ought to know the tale already--how the two Melvilles
and Buchanan's nephew Thomas went to see him in Edinburgh, in
September, 1581, hearing that he was ill, and his History still in
the press; and how they found the old sage, true to his
schoolmaster's instincts, teaching the Hornbook to his servant-lad;
and how he told them that doing that was "better than stealing
sheep, or sitting idle, which was as bad," and showed them that
dedication to James I., in which he holds up to his imitation as a
hero whose equal was hardly to be found in history, that very King
David whose liberality to the Romish Church provoked James's
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