| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: he told himself exultantly as he slid from his horse and stood
bowing before her.
And he, for his part, was a taking enough picture of
devil-may-care gallantry gone to seed. The touch of jaunty
impudence in his humility, not less than the daring admiration of
his handsome eyes and the easy, sinuous grace of his flexed
muscles, labeled him what he was--a man bold and capable to do
what he willed, and a villain every inch of him.
Said she, after that first clash of stormy eyes with bold,
admiring ones:
"I am lost--from the Lazy D ranch."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Y'u wouldn't call it near by the time we had reached it. What's
to hinder your sleeping here? Isn't this room airy enough? And
don't y'u like the system of lighting? 'Twas patented I forget
how many million years ago. Y'u ain't going to play parlor girl
now after getting the reputation y'u've got for gameness, are
y'u?"
But he knew well enough that it was no silly schoolgirl fear she
had, but some deep instinct in her that distrusted him and warned
her to beware. So, lightly he took up the burden of the talk
while he gathered cottonwood branches for the fire.
"Now if I'd only thought to bring a load of lumber and some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: a young sheep-dog, a brindled puppy with good blue eyes, lying
with a broken leg in the snow of the park. Yves de Cornault was
at Rennes, and she brought the dog in, warmed and fed it, tied up
its leg and hid it in the castle till her husband's return. The
day before, she gave it to a peasant woman who lived a long way
off, and paid her handsomely to care for it and say nothing; but
that night she heard a whining and scratching at her door, and
when she opened it the lame puppy, drenched and shivering, jumped
up on her with little sobbing barks. She hid him in her bed, and
the next morning was about to have him taken back to the peasant
woman when she heard her husband ride into the court. She shut
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