| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: you should have left some suitable explanation for your absence.
"This soup is really impossible; it's strange that woman
hasn't learned yet to make a decent soup. Any free-lunch stand in
town serves a better one. Was Mrs. Belthrop here?"
"Bring the tray with the cards, Joe. I don't remember who was here."
The boy retired and returned after a moment, bringing the tiny
silver tray, which was covered with ladies' visiting cards. He
handed it to Mrs. Pontellier.
"Give it to Mr. Pontellier," she said.
Joe offered the tray to Mr. Pontellier, and removed the soup.
Mr. Pontellier scanned the names of his wife's callers,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: And like your grace; he is a Scholar and
A Lingest, one that hath travelled many parts
Of Christendom, my Lord.
WOLSEY.
My friend, come nearer; have you been a traveller?
CROMWELL.
My Lord, I have added to my knowledge the low Countries,
France, Spain, Germany, and Italy:
And though small gain of profit I did find,
Yet did it please my eye, content my mind.
WOLSEY.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: done smiling, in the tone of good society; BELLE MAMAN was the name
I was taught to give to each; and for a day or two the new "pretty
mamma" would make much of me, show me off, teach me the minuet, and
to say my prayers; and then, with a tender embrace, would go the
way of her predecessors, smiling. There were some that wept too.
There was a childhood! All the time Monsieur de Culemberg kept his
eye on me, and would have had me out of the ABBAYE and in his own
protection, but my "pretty mammas" one after another resisted the
idea. Where could I be safer? they argued; and what was to become
of them without the darling of the prison? Well, it was soon shown
how safe I was! The dreadful day of the massacre came; the prison
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