| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: I told him to the best of my ability. He listened attentively enough, but
thereafter he had not another word for me, and presently he went into the
next car. I took his manner to be the Western abruptness that I had heard
of, and presently forgot him in the scenery along the line. At Albuquerque
I got off for a trip to a lunch-counter, and happened to take a seat next
to him.
"Know anybody in Holston?" he asked.
As I could not speak because of a mouthful of sandwich I shook my head. For
the moment I had forgotten about Dick Leslie, and when it did occur to me
some Indians offering to sell me beads straightway drove it out of my mind
again.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: And bring honour away, or remain with the dead."
Untroubled in his look, and untroubled in his breast,
The knight the weed hath taken, and reverently hath kiss'd.
"Now blessed be the moment, the messenger be blest!
Much honour'd do I hold me in my lady's high behest;
And say unto my lady, in this dear night-weed dress'd,
To the best armed champion I will not veil my crest;
But if I live and bear me well 'tis her turn to take the test."
Here, gentles, ends the foremost fytte of the Lay of the Bloody
Vest.
"Thou hast changed the measure upon us unawares in that last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: out crying. I'd had my own trials, young as I was, an' she knew
it. Oh, I did entreat her; yes, I entreated Joanna."
"What did she say then?" asked Mrs. Fosdick, much moved.
"She looked the same way, sad an' remote through it all," said
Mrs. Todd mournfully. "She took hold of my hand, and we sat down
close together; 'twas as if she turned round an' made a child of
me. 'I haven't got no right to live with folks no more,' she said.
'You must never ask me again, Almiry: I've done the only thing I
could do, and I've made my choice. I feel a great comfort in your
kindness, but I don't deserve it. I have committed the
unpardonable sin; you don't understand,' says she humbly. 'I was
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