| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: of at least a hundred and twenty-five acres,
filled with fine old trees, and intersected by a
network of well-kept walks. Smoking as he
strolled Volgin took his favourite path past the
summer-house into the fields beyond. It was
pleasant in the park, but it was still nicer in the
fields. On the right some women who were dig-
ging potatoes formed a mass of bright red and
white colour; on the left were wheat fields, mead-
ows, and grazing cattle; and in the foreground,
slightly to the right, were the dark, dark oaks of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: figures walking ahead of him. This couple, who had the path to
themselves,moved at an uneven pace, as though adapting their gait
to a conversation marked by meditative intervals. Now and then
they paused, and in one of these pauses the lady, turning toward
her companion, showed Glennard the outline of his wife's profile.
The man was Flamel.
The blood rushed to Glennard's forehead. He sat up with a jerk
and pushed back the lid in the roof of the hansom; but when the
cabman bent down he dropped into his seat without speaking. Then,
becoming conscious of the prolonged interrogation of the lifted
lid, he called out--"Turn--drive back--anywhere--I'm in a hurry--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: perlustations brought him one evening into a beautiful sylvan valley,
where he found a number of young women weaving garlands of flowers,
and singing over their pleasant occupation. He approached them,
and courteously inquired the way to the nearest town.
"There is no town within several miles," was the answer.
"A village, then, if it be but large enough to furnish an inn?"
"There is Gamwell just by, but there is no inn nearer than the nearest town."
"An abbey, then?"
"There is no abbey nearer than the nearest inn."
"A house then, or a cottage, where I may obtain hospitality for the night?"
"Hospitality!" said one of the young women; "you have not far to seek
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