| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: nothing. But he wouldn't let himself go, or he couldn't. He didn't want
me to have any more children. I always blamed his mother, for letting
him in th' room. He'd no right t'ave been there. Men makes so much more
of things than they should, once they start brooding.'
'Did he mind so much?' said Connie in wonder.
'Yes, he sort of couldn't take it for natural, all that pain. And it
spoilt his pleasure in his bit of married love. I said to him: If I
don't care, why should you? It's my look-out!--But all he'd ever say
was: It's not right!'
'Perhaps he was too sensitive,' said Connie.
'That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: Go you down along the path a little way slowly. I will follow
you in a quarter of an hour. And remember we are to be here
together once more!"
Once more! Yes, and then what must be done?
How was this strange case to be dealt with so as to save all
the actors, as far as possible, from needless suffering? That
Keene's mind was disordered at least three of us suspected
already. But to me alone was the nature and seat of the
disorder known. How make the others understand it? They
might easily conceive it to be something different from the
fact, some actual lesion of the brain, an incurable insanity.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: "Dr. Webster, are you ready for me to-night?" asked Parkman.
"No," replied the other, "I am not ready to-night." After a
little further conversation in regard to the mortgage, Parkman
departed with the ominous remark, "Doctor, something must be done
to-morrow."
Unfortunately the Professor was not in a position to do anything.
He had no means sufficient to meet his creditor's demands; and
that creditor was unrelenting. On the 22nd Parkman rode into
Cambridge, where Webster lived, to press him further, but failed
to find him. Webster's patience, none too great at any time, was
being sorely tried. To whom could he turn? What further
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