| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: the rest of the world. You join us to our kind--to all the
strange lands and peoples we have never seen. We hope to know them
--to love and help them--and to learn of them. Ah! You cannot know!"
Thousands of voices rose in the soaring climax of that great
Hymn of The Coming Life. By the great Altar of Motherhood, with
its crown of fruit and flowers, stood a new one, crowned as well.
Before the Great Over Mother of the Land and her ring of
High Temple Counsellors, before that vast multitude of calm-
faced mothers and holy-eyed maidens, came forward our own
three chosen ones, and we, three men alone in all that land,
joined hands with them and made our marriage vows.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: had seen his face; and there were moments when the intense
consciousness of the old, dusky walls seemed about to break out
into some audible revelation of their secret. But the revelation
never came, and she knew it would never come. Lyng was not one
of the garrulous old houses that betray the secrets intrusted to
them. Its very legend proved that it had always been the mute
accomplice, the incorruptible custodian of the mysteries it had
surprised. And Mary Boyne, sitting face to face with its
portentous silence, felt the futility of seeking to break it by
any human means.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "I have known her half an hour!" said Winterbourne, smiling.
"Dear me!" cried Mrs. Costello. "What a dreadful girl!"
Her nephew was silent for some moments. "You really think, then,"
he began earnestly, and with a desire for trustworthy information--"you
really think that--" But he paused again.
"Think what, sir?" said his aunt.
"That she is the sort of young lady who expects a man, sooner or later,
to carry her off?"
"I haven't the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do.
But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American
girls that are uncultivated, as you call them. You have lived too long
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