| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: depressing features. It stood in a marshy-looking hollow of a
heath; tall trees obscured its windows; the thatch visibly rotted
on the rafters; and the walls were stained with splashes of
unwholesome green. The rooms were small, the ceilings low, the
furniture merely nominal; a strange chill and a haunting smell of
damp pervaded the kitchen; and the bedroom boasted only of one
bed.
Morris, with a view to cheapening the place, remarked on this
defect.
'Well,' returned the man; 'if you can't sleep two abed, you'd
better take a villa residence.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: comfort. A long gust of chill air swept up the aisles, and Miss
Sophie shivered not from cold, but from nervousness.
But darkness was falling, and soon the lights would be lowered,
and the great massive doors would be closed; so, gathering her
thin little cape about her frail shoulders, Miss Sophie hurried
out, and along the brilliant noisy streets home.
It was a wretched, lonely little room, where the cracks let the
boisterous wind whistle through, and the smoky, grimy walls
looked cheerless and unhomelike. A miserable little room in a
miserable little cottage in one of the squalid streets of the
Third District that nature and the city fathers seemed to have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: kick it over. But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking
her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of
Cadmus as she well could. If he walked slowly, so did the cow,
and seized the opportunity to graze. If he quickened his pace,
the cow went just so much the faster; and once, when Cadmus
tried to catch her by running, she threw out her heels, stuck
her tail straight on end, and set off at a gallop, looking as
queerly as cows generally do, while putting themselves to their
speed.
When Cadmus saw that it was impossible to come up with her, he
walked on moderately, as before. The cow, too, went leisurely
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