| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: I know him. He has found beauty ignorant of itself; he will teach
you to develop it."
The next morning Mr. Uxbridge had an interview with Aunt Eliza
before he saw me.
When we were alone I asked him how her eccentricities affected
him; he could not but consider her violent, prejudiced, warped, and
whimsical. I told him that I had been taught to accept all that she
did on this basis. Would this explain to him my silence in regard
to her?
"Can you endure to live with her in Bond Street for the present,
or would you rather return to Waterbury?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "He'll come. Where's Jake and Mac?"
"They're here somewhere, drinkin' like fish, an' raisin' hell."
Two more renegades appeared at the door, and, entering the teepee, squatted
down in Indian fashion. The little wiry man with the wizened face was McKee;
the other was the latest acquisition to the renegade force, Jake Deering,
deserter, thief, murderer--everything that is bad. In appearance he was of
medium height, but very heavily, compactly built, and evidently as strong as
an ox. He had a tangled shock of red hair, a broad, bloated face; big, dull
eyes, like the openings of empty furnaces, and an expression of beastliness.
Deering and McKee were intoxicated.
"Bad time fer drinkin'," said Girty, with disapproval in his glance.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: students, who had been long in the army, felt exactly in the same
way. In fact, the military service of Christendom, for the last
ten years, had been anything but a parade service; and to those,
therefore, who were familiar with every form of horrid butchery,
the mere outside horrors of death had lost much of their terror.
In the recent murder there had not been much to call forth
sympathy. The family consisted of two old bachelors, two sisters,
and one grandniece. The niece was absent on a visit, and the two
old men were cynical misers, to whom little personal interest
attached. Still, in this case as in that of the Weishaupts, the
same twofold mystery confounded the public mind--the mystery of the
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