| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: was at the Sunk Creek Ranch, his duties called him away so much
that there was no chance for him. Worse still, that habit of
birds of a feather brought about a separation more considerable.
She arranged to go East with the Ogdens. It was so good an
opportunity to travel with friends, instead of making the journey
alone!
Molly's term of ministration at the schoolhouse had so pleased
Bear Creek that she was warmly urged to take a holiday. School
could afford to begin a little late. Accordingly, she departed.
The Virginian hid his sore heart from her during the moment of
farewell that they had.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: glittering eyes.
'I'll tell you what you did!' he cried. 'You absconded!'
'Good morning, Morris Finsbury,' returned Joseph, with no less
asperity; 'you are looking seriously ill.'
'No use making trouble now,' remarked Michael. 'Look the facts in
the face. Your uncle, as you see, was not so much as shaken in
the accident; a man of your humane disposition ought to be
delighted.'
'Then, if that's so,' Morris broke forth, 'how about the body?
You don't mean to insinuate that thing I schemed and sweated for,
and colported with my own hands, was the body of a total
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: corruption; and even when there is nothing left them to learn in this
kind, they rise to an indulgence which is the last degree of contempt.
"Pooh! pure Paris street-boy's curiosity," cried David.
"Very well, dear, do me the pleasure to step downstairs and look at
the work done by this boy of yours, and tell me then whether he ought
not to have finished our almanac this month."
David went into the workshop after dinner, and saw that the calendar
should have been set up in a week. Then, when he heard that the
Cointets were bringing out a similar almanac, he came to the rescue.
He took command of the printing office, Kolb helped at home instead of
selling broadsheets. Kolb and Marion pulled off the impressions from
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