| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: until this revolution is ended? I have never had a day's worry
since I bought the ranch. It is not that I want to shirk my
responsibilities; it is that I like being happy. May I put so
much faith in you?"
"I hope so, Miss Hammond," replied Stewart. It was an instant
response, but none the less fraught with consciousness of
responsibility. He waited a moment, and then, as neither
Stillwell nor Madeline offered further speech, he bowed and
turned down the path, his long spurs clinking in the gravel.
"Wal, wal," exclaimed Stillwell, "thet's no little job you give
him, Miss Majesty."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: important," she said earnestly, when she had finished
talking about the adventure with the bull. "That is, broken
the news of our marriage to my dear Elizabeth-Jane."
"Ah, and you have not?" he said thoughtfully. "I gave her a
lift from the barn homewards; but I did not tell her either;
for I thought she might have heard of it in the town, and
was keeping back her congratulations from shyness, and all
that."
"She can hardly have heard of it. But I'll find out; I'll
go to her now. And, Donald, you don't mind her living on
with me just the same as before? She is so quiet and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: source of amusement of his own. "I suspicioned that might be your
name when I say y'u come a-sailin' down from heaven to gather me
up like Enoch."
"Why?"
"Well, ma'am, I happened to drift in to Gimlet Butte two or three
days ago, and while I was up at the depot looking for some
freight a train sashaid in and side tracked a flat car. There was
an automobile on that car addressed to Miss Helen Messiter. Now,
automobiles are awful seldom in this country. I don't seem to
remember having seen one before."
"I see. You're quite a Sherlock Holmes. Do you know anything more
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