| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: realy our Best Friends?"
"Cherish us!" said Jane. "I haven't noticed any cherishing. They
tolarate me, and hardly that."
"I fear you are pessamistic," I said, reproving her but mildly, for
Jane's school is well known to be harsh and uncompromizing.
"However, my own feelings to my Instructers are diferent and quite
friendly, especialy at a distance. I shall send them flowers."
It was rather awful, however, after I had got inside the shop, to
find that violets, which I had set my heart on as being the school
flour, were five dollars a hundred. Also there were more teachers
than I had considered, some of them making but small impression on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: hussy was empty-headed, ill-tempered, greedy, and what's more,
she was a fool.
"She ate and drank a vast amount, slept till five o clock in the
afternoon -- and I fancy did nothing else. She was looked upon as
a cocotte, and that was indeed her profession; but when people
wanted to refer to her in a literary fashion, they called her an
actress and a singer. I used to be devoted to the theatre, and
therefore this fraudulent pretense of being an actress made me
furiously indignant. My young lady had not the slightest right to
call herself an actress or a singer. She was a creature entirely
devoid of talent, devoid of feeling -- a pitiful creature one may
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: invoked Elshie in a tone as supplicating as his conflicting
feelings would permit. "Elshie, my gude friend!" No reply.
"Elshie, canny Father Elshie!" The Dwarf remained mute. "Sorrow
be in the crooked carcass of thee!" said the Borderer between
his teeth; and then again attempting a soothing tone,--"Good
Father Elshie, a most miserable creature desires some counsel of
your wisdom."
"The better!" answered the shrill and discordant voice of the
Dwarf through a very small window, resembling an arrow slit,
which he had constructed near the door of his dwelling, and
through which he could see any one who approached it, without the
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