| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: "Yes, I shall have another. She was very kind to me. It's that
that's the difference."
He judged, wondering a good deal before he made any motion to leave
her, that the difference would somehow be very great and would
consist of still other things than her having let him come in. It
rather chilled him, for they had been happy together as they were.
He extracted from her at any rate an intimation that she should now
have means less limited, that her aunt's tiny fortune had come to
her, so that there was henceforth only one to consume what had
formerly been made to suffice for two. This was a joy to Stransom,
because it had hitherto been equally impossible for him either to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: at the station.
I poured a little liquor in a bungling masculine fashion between
her lips as she leaned back, with closed eyes. She choked, coughed,
and rallied somewhat.
"Poor thing," said the stout lady. "As she lies back that way I
could almost think it was my mother; she used to faint so much."
"It would make anybody faint," chimed in another. "Murder and
robbery in one night and on one car. I'm thankful I always wear
my rings in a bag around my neck - even if they do get under me
and keep me awake."
The girl in blue was looking at us with wide, startled eyes. I saw
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: time miner's idea of wealth easily gained and quickly spent
persisted in his mind. But when Trina had begun to talk of
investments and interests and per cents, he was troubled and
not a little disappointed. The lump sum of five
thousand dollars was one thing, a miserable little twenty or
twenty-five a month was quite another; and then someone else
had the money.
"But don't you see, Mac," explained Trina, "it's ours just
the same. We could get it back whenever we wanted it; and
then it's the reasonable way to do. We mustn't let it turn
our heads, Mac, dear, like that man that spent all he won in
McTeague |
