| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: And when I asked her what she was doing in Atlanta she looked quite
surprised at my ignorance and told me that they were living here
now and that you had been kind enough to make Mr. Wilkes a partner
in your mill."
"Well, what of it?" questioned Scarlett, shortly.
"When I lent you the money to buy that mill I made one stipulation,
to which you agreed, and that was that it should not go to the
support of Ashley Wilkes."
"You are being very offensive. I've paid you back your money and I
own the mill and what I do with it is my own business."
"Would you mind telling me how you made the money to pay back my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: have stood in Kingsway looking at the traffic until she forgot.
"But it was then I first knew I loved you!" she exclaimed.
"Tell me from the beginning," he begged her.
"No, I'm a person who can't tell things," she pleaded. "I shall say
something ridiculous--something about flames--fires. No, I can't tell
you."
But he persuaded her into a broken statement, beautiful to him,
charged with extreme excitement as she spoke of the dark red fire, and
the smoke twined round it, making him feel that he had stepped over
the threshold into the faintly lit vastness of another mind, stirring
with shapes, so large, so dim, unveiling themselves only in flashes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: He thought of Valentin de Bellegarde, still green in the earth
of his burial--his young life clipped by this flourishing impudence.
The perfume of the young lady's finery sickened him; he turned his head
and tried to deflect his course; but the pressure of the crowd kept him
near her a few minutes longer, so that he heard what she was saying.
"Ah, I am sure he will miss me," she murmured. "It was very cruel in me
to leave him; I am afraid you will think me a very heartless creature.
He might perfectly well have come with us. I don't think he is very well,"
she added; "it seemed to me to-day that he was not very gay."
Newman wondered whom she was talking about, but just then an
opening among his neighbors enabled him to turn away, and he said
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