| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: whose dark richness was quickened and brightened by the season;
with the carpeted fields and flowering hedgerows, as she
looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires
of the rural churches peeping above the rook-haunted treetops;
with the oak-studded parks, the ancient homes, the cloudy light,
the speech, the manners, the thousand differences.
Mrs. Westgate's impressions had, of course, much less novelty
and keenness, and she gave but a wandering attention to her
sister's ejaculations and rhapsodies.
"You know my enjoyment of England is not so intellectual as Bessie's," she
said to several of her friends in the course of her visit to this country.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "An', Miss Majesty," he concluded, "I reckon if Gene Stewart was
ridin' fer me, thet grinnin' Greaser would hev hed a bump in the
dust before now."
Madeline had been wavering between sobriety and laughter until
Stillwell's mention of his ideal of cowboy chivalry decided in
favor of the laughter.
"I am not convinced, but I surrender," she said. "You have only
some occult motive for driving me away. I am sure that handsome
Don Carlos is being unjustly suspected. But as I have seen a
little of cowboys' singular imagination and gallantry, I am
rather inclined to fear their possibilities. So good-by."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: simply a question of the degree of properness.
CHAPTER XV
She never knew afterwards quite what she had done to settle it, and
at the time she only knew that they presently moved, with
vagueness, yet with continuity, away from the picture of the
lighted vestibule and the quiet stairs and well up the street
together. This also must have been in the absence of a definite
permission, of anything vulgarly articulate, for that matter, on
the part of either; and it was to be, later on, a thing of
remembrance and reflexion for her that the limit of what just here
for a longish minute passed between them was his taking in her
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