| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: her fust baby--well, they had an elegant church wedding, and what
you s'pose I saw as I was walkin' up the aisle with the wedding
percession?"
"Well?" Ann Eliza whispered, forgetting to thread her needle.
"Why, a coffin, to be sure, right on the top step of the
chancel--Emma's folks is 'piscopalians and she would have a church
wedding, though HIS mother raised a terrible rumpus over it-
-well, there it set, right in front of where the minister stood
that was going to marry 'em, a coffin covered with a black velvet
pall with a gold fringe, and a 'Gates Ajar' in white camellias atop
of it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: rene unconcern dealt him a measure of con-
fidence, for he had known him since childhood,
and from his intimate knowledge he did not see
how he could be capable of anything that was
beyond him, the youth. Still, he thought that
his comrade might be mistaken about himself.
Or, on the other hand, he might be a man here-
tofore doomed to peace and obscurity, but, in
reality, made to shine in war.
The youth would have liked to have discov-
ered another who suspected himself. A sympa-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: on," he bade the coachman.
The carriage rolled away up the Faubourg Gigan, leaving him standing
where he had alighted, quivering with rage. Gradually, as he walked
back to the inn, his anger cooled. Gradually, as he cooled, he
perceived her point of view, and in the end forgave her. It was not
her fault that she thought as she thought. Her rearing had been such
as to make her look upon every actress as a trull, just as it had
qualified her calmly to consider the monstrous marriage of convenience
into which she was invited.
He got back to the inn to find the company at table. Silence fell
when he entered, so suddenly that of necessity it must be supposed he
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