| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: examine his profile. It was innocent of all unfriendly
intention.
"What'd you want to go up the Mountain for?"
"Why, it must be rather a curious place. There's a
queer colony up there, you know: sort of out-laws, a
little independent kingdom. Of course you've heard
them spoken of; but I'm told they have nothing to do
with the people in the valleys--rather look down on
them, in fact. I suppose they're rough customers; but
they must have a good deal of character."
She did not quite know what he meant by having a good
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: lake; and there the water nymphs came up to look at him, and
loved him, and carried him down under the lake to be their
playfellow, for ever happy and young. And Heracles sought
for him in vain, shouting his name till all the mountains
rang; but Hylas never heard him, far down under the sparkling
lake. So while Heracles wandered searching for him, a fair
breeze sprang up, and Heracles was nowhere to be found; and
the ARGO sailed away, and Heracles was left behind, and never
saw the noble Phasian stream.
Then the Minuai came to a doleful land, where Amycus the
giant ruled, and cared nothing for the laws of Zeus, but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape,
notwithstanding his timid contrivances.
CHAPTER XXIX
THE evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in
the library; now musing mournfully - one of us despairingly - on
our loss, now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future.
We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine
would be a permission to continue resident at the Grange; at least
during Linton's life: he being allowed to join her there, and I to
remain as housekeeper. That seemed rather too favourable an
arrangement to be hoped for; and yet I did hope, and began to cheer
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