| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: Carroll, there rose in her breast a panic at strange
variance with her other feelings.
Many times had Madge Ellston viewed the field
and stands and the outlying country from this
high vantage point; but never with the same
mingling emotions, nor had the sunshine ever
been so golden, the woods and meadows so green,
the diamond so smooth and velvety, the whole
scene so gaily bright.
Denver had always been a good drawing card,
and having won the first game of the present
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: and dried in the smoke - 40,000 barrels of merchantable red
herrings in one season, which is in itself (though far short of the
other) yet a very considerable article; and it is to be added that
this is besides all the herrings consumed in the country towns of
both those populous counties for thirty miles from the sea, whither
very great quantities are carried every tide during the whole
season.
But this is only one branch of the great trade carried on in this
town. Another part of this commerce is in the exporting these
herrings after they are cured; and for this their merchants have a
great trade to Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Messina, and Venice; as also
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: trembled: apparently the effect of her fears.
"I could not longer endure this spectacle. `Ah! Manon,' said I
to her in the mildest tone, `faithless and perjured Manon! How
am I to complain of your conduct? I see you pale and trembling,
and I am still so much alive to your slightest sufferings, that I
am unwilling to add to them by my reproaches. But, Manon, I tell
you that my heart is pierced with sorrow at your treatment of
me--treatment that is seldom inflicted but with the purpose of
destroying one's life. This is the third time, Manon; I have
kept a correct account; it is impossible to forget that. It is
now for you to consider what course you will adopt; for my
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