| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "I hope--I think it was Stewart," replied Dorothy.
"Ah! Dot, your hope is father to the thought. My dear, I'm
sorry to riddle your little romance. Stewart did not--could not
have been the offender or hero."
"How do you know he couldn't?" demanded Dorothy, flushing.
"Because he was clean-shaven to-day at noon, before we rode out.
I remember perfectly how nice and smooth and brown his face
looked."
"Oh, do you? Well, if your memory for faces is so good, maybe
you can tell me which one of these cowboys wasn't clean-shaven."
"Merely a matter of elimination," replied Helen, merrily. "It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: up to? You know you warned me rather emphatically against
the theatre." She threw off the statement without
impatience, as though they were discussing together the fate
of a third person in whom both were benevolently interested.
Darrow considered his reply. "If I did, it was because you
so emphatically refused to let me help you to a start."
She stopped short and faced him "And you think I may let you
now?"
Darrow felt the blood in his cheek. He could not understand
her attitude--if indeed she had consciously taken one, and
her changes of tone did not merely reflect the involuntary
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: days after his arrival he learned that I was in Le Chatelet.
"Before I received this visit, which I little expected so soon,
I had the honour of one from the lieutenant-general of police,
or, to call things by their right names, I was subjected to an
official examination. He upbraided me certainly, but not in any
harsh or annoying manner. He told me, in the kindest tone, that
he bitterly lamented my bad conduct; that I had committed a gross
indiscretion in making an enemy of such a man as M. G---- M----;
that in truth it was easy to see that there was, in the affair,
more of imprudence and folly than of malice; but that still it
was the second time I had been brought as a culprit under his
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