| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: published? Are not the clothes purchased? Are not
the friends invited? In short, is it not a done affair?
DIMPLE
Believe me, my dear Letitia, I would not marry her.
LETITIA
Why have you not broke with her before this, as
you all along deluded me by saying you would?
DIMPLE
Because I was in hopes she would, ere this, have
broke with me.
LETITIA
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: calculated editorial air.
"I'll tell you," said Tripp. "It's a girl. A beauty. One of the
howlingest Amsden's Junes you ever saw. Rosebuds covered with dew-
violets in their mossy bed--and truck like that. She's lived on Long
Island twenty years and never saw New York City before. I ran against
her on Thirty-fourth Street. She'd just got in on the East River
ferry. I tell you, she's a beauty that would take the hydrogen out of
all the peroxides in the world. She stopped me on the street and
asked me where she could find George Brown. Asked me where she could
find George Brown in New York City! What do you think of that?
"I talked to her, and found that she was going to marry a young farmer
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: That it doth hate what gets it.
Edg. Poor Tom 's acold.
Glou. Go in with me. My duty cannot suffer
T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands.
Though their injunction be to bar my doors
And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,
Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out
And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
Lear. First let me talk with this philosopher.
What is the cause of thunder?
Kent. Good my lord, take his offer; go into th' house.
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