| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: the sunset. There was a pause. Wilding sighed heavily, and
straightened himself from his bending posture.
"You should not have sought thus to compel me, she said presently.
"I own it," he answered a thought bitterly. "I own it. Yet what hope
had I but in compulsion?" She returned him no answer. "You see," he
said, with increasing bitterness, "you see, that had I not seized the
chance that was mine to win you by compulsion I had not won you at all."
"It might," said she, "have been better so for both of us."
"Better for neither," he replied. "Ah, think it not! In time, I
swear, you shall not think it. For you shall come to love me, Ruth,"
he added with a note of such assurance that she turned to meet again
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Of courtlier times and places
When the cheap
And vulgar wasn't "art"--
When the faunal prance and leap
Weren't "smart."
Have we lost the trick of wedding
Grace to pleasure?
Must we clown it at the bidding
Of some tawdry, common measure?
Can't you school us in the graces
Of your pose and dainty paces?--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: bordering it was a straggling, unkempt privet hedge, interlaced
with sweet-smelling honeysuckle vines. Here and there in the
grass, roses threw out sprangles from crushed old stems and pink
and white crepe myrtle bloomed as valiantly as if war had not
passed over their heads and Yankee horses gnawed their boughs.
Scarlett thought it quite the ugliest dwelling she had ever seen
but, to Melanie, Twelve Oaks in all its grandeur had not been more
beautiful. It was home and she and Ashley and Beau were at last
together under their own roof.
India Wilkes came back from Macon, where she and Honey had lived
since 1864, and took up her residence with her brother, crowding
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