| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: that so many different princesses are one and the same person?"
"Not exactly," answered the Wheeler. "There is, of course, but one
princess; but she appears to us in many forms, which are all more or
less beautiful."
"She must be a witch," exclaimed the girl.
"I do not think so," declared the Wheeler. "But there is some mystery
connected with her, nevertheless. She is a very vain creature, and
lives mostly in a room surrounded by mirrors, so that she can admire
herself whichever way she looks."
No one answered this speech, because they had just passed out of the
forest and their attention was fixed upon the scene before them--a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Upon the Beauty of Obedience.
[Citizens murmur.]
FIRST CITIZEN
I' faith, that will not fill our stomachs!
SECOND CITIZEN
A sermon is but a sorry sauce, when
You have nothing to eat with it.
DUCHESS
Poor people,
You see I have no power with the Duke,
But if you go into the court without,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: hostess, to whom he explained the motive of his waiting. "Ah yes,
some intellectual, some PROFESSIONAL, talk," she leered; "at this
season doesn't one miss it? Poor dear Henry, I'm so glad!" The
young man looked out of the window a moment, at the called hansoms
that lurched up, at the smooth broughams that rolled away. When he
turned round Mrs. St. George had disappeared; her husband's voice
rose to him from below - he was laughing and talking, in the
portico, with some lady who awaited her carriage. Paul had
solitary possession, for some minutes, of the warm deserted rooms
where the covered tinted lamplight was soft, the seats had been
pushed about and the odour of flowers lingered. They were large,
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