| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: awaited their father's appearance, and, though for different
reasons, could hardly restrain their impatience. The noblewoman
and Akulina were concerned only in regard to Polikey himself,
while the children were interested most in what he would bring
them from the town.
The only news received by the villagers during the day concerning
Polikey was to the effect that neighboring peasants had seen him
running up and down the road and asking every one he met if he or
she had found an envelope.
One of them had seen him also walking by the side of his
tired-out horse. "I thought," said he, "that the man was drunk,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: worst element of all. Something sat by his pillow asking grey
questions: "What are you doing? Where are you going? Is it really
well with the children? Is it really well with the church? Is it
really well with the country? Are you indeed doing anything at
all? Are you anything more than an actor wearing a costume in an
archaic play? The people turn their backs on you."
He would twist over on his pillow. He would whisper hymns and
prayers that had the quality of charms.
"He giveth his Beloved sleep"; that answered many times, and
many times it failed.
The labour troubles of 1912 eased off as the year wore on, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: a highway that had been used for centuries. If it had been wide
enough to permit passing a vehicle it would have been a
magnificent course for automobiles. But the weeds and the dusty
flowers and the mesquite boughs and arms of cactus brushed the
car as it sped by.
Faster, faster, faster! That old resistless weight began to
press Madeline back; the old incessant bellow of wind filled her
ears. Link Stevens hunched low over the wheel. His eyes were
hidden under leather helmet and goggles, but the lower part of
his face was unprotected. He resembled a demon, so dark and
stone-hard and strangely grinning was he. All at once Madeline
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