| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: bright. Presently Em raised her hand to her breast, where lay the letter
yesterday had brought her. Soon she had forgotten him, as entirely as he
had forgotten her; each was in his own world with his own. He was writing
to Lyndall. He would tell her all he had seen, all he had done, though it
were nothing worth relating. He seemed to have come back to her, and to be
talking to her now he sat there in the old house.
"--and then I got to the next town, and my horse was tired, so I could go
no further, and looked for work. A shopkeeper agreed to hire me as
salesman. He made me sign a promise to remain six months, and he gave me a
little empty room at the back of the store to sleep in. I had still three
pounds of my own, and when you just come from the country three pounds
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: If still, with friends averted, fate severe,
A glad, untainted cheerfulness be mine
To greet the unruly time of year,
The Feast of Valentine.
Priest, I am none of thine, and see
In the perspective of still hopeful youth
That Truth shall triumph over thee -
Truth to one's self - I know no other truth.
I see strange days for thee and thine, O priest,
And how your doctrines, fallen one by one,
Shall furnish at the annual feast
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: of free men and had bent his back under the hand of
the law. There were, of course, people in his little
native village, people who had been friends and
neighbors, but there were none who had ever loved
him sufficiently for him to conquer his resolve to
never ask aid of them. He had no relatives except
cousins more or less removed, and they would have
nothing to do with him.
There had been a woman whom he had meant to
marry, and he had been sure that she would marry
him; but after he had been a year in prison the
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