| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: 'To carry her home with us, that she may die a shameful
death; but if we return without her, we must die the death
she should have died.'
'What say you to this, Jason the AEolid?' said Alcinous,
turning to the Minuai.
'I say,' said the cunning Jason, 'that they are come here on
a bootless errand. Do you think that you can make her follow
you, heroes of the Colchi - her, who knows all spells and
charms? She will cast away your ships on quicksands, or call
down on you Brimo the wild huntress; or the chains will fall
from off her wrists, and she will escape in her dragon-car;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: "That is the whole of my story," the priest continued, with no more of
the recent stress in his voice. "And now I have talked to you about
myself quite enough. But you must have my confession." He had now resumed
entirely his half-playful tone. "I was just a little mistaken, you see--
too self-reliant, perhaps--when I supposed, in my first missionary ardor,
that I could get on without any remembrance of the world at all. I found
that I could not. And so I have taught the old operas to my choir--such
parts of them as are within our compass and suitable for worship. And
certain of my friends still alive at home are good enough to remember this
taste of mine and to send me each year some of the new music that I should
never hear of otherwise. Then we study these things also. And although
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: absolutely dine with us, for we shall be a large party."
Mrs. Jennings enforced the necessity. "And who knows
but you may raise a dance," said she. "And that will
tempt YOU, Miss Marianne."
"A dance!" cried Marianne. "Impossible! Who is to dance?"
"Who! why yourselves, and the Careys, and Whitakers
to be sure.--What! you thought nobody could dance
because a certain person that shall be nameless is gone!"
"I wish with all my soul," cried Sir John,
"that Willoughby were among us again."
This, and Marianne's blushing, gave new suspicions
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