| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: remember so many thngs that there was no enumerating them: "no,
it had really better be today!"
Stepan Arkadyevitch was not dining at hime, but he promised to
come and see his sister off at seven o'clock.
Kitty, too, did not come, sending a note that she had a headache.
Dolly and Anna dined alone iwth the children and the English
governess. Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that
they had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different
that day from what she had been when they had taken such a fancy
to her, that she was not now interested in them,--but they had
abruptly droppedtheir play iwth their aunt, and their love for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: 'He has ears,' the servant answered drily. 'But he has no
tongue, Monsieur.'
I shuddered. 'How did he lose it?' I asked.
'At Rochelle. He was a spy, and the king's people took him the
day the town surrendered. They spared his life, but cut out his
tongue.'
'Ah!' I said. I wished to say more, to be natural, to show
myself at my ease. But the porter's eyes seemed to burn into me,
and my own tongue clave to the roof of my mouth. He opened his
lips and pointed to his throat with a horrid gesture, and I shook
my head and turned from him--'You can let me have some bedding?'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And thirst of a poisoned love. Were I stronger,
Or weaker, perhaps my scorn had saved me,
Given me strength to crush my sorrow
With hate for her and the world that praised her --
To have left her, then and there -- to have conquered
That old false life with a new and a wiser, --
Such things are easy in words. You listen,
And frown, I suppose, that I never mention
That beautiful word, FORGIVE! -- I forgave her
First of all; and I praised kind Heaven
That I was a brave, clean man to do it;
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