| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: summer with the sick, and it was Sister Theckla who brought the
child to us. Can you not go home with us? Or I could write to you
at once--''
``No,'' said the lady. ``I will go. The child shall not leave me--'
``And we will talk to Sister Theckla, and she will tell us all that
she knows, and then--God willing--we shall know all.''
The lady said: ``Yes, we will all go together. We will go at once.''
And so it was that when Sister Theckla had told all that she knew,
then the lady knew (as she always had said she had known), past all
doubting, that Bessie Bell had really found what she most wished
for.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: had gone to India to shoot tigers, but he returned in time for the
punctual private view: it was he who had snapped up, as Flora
called it, the gem of the exhibition. My hope for the girl's
future had slipped ignominiously off his back, but after his
purchase of the portrait I tried to cultivate a new faith. The
girl's own faith was wonderful. It couldn't however be contagious:
too great was the limit of her sense of what painters call values.
Her colours were laid on like blankets on a cold night. How indeed
could a person speak the truth who was always posturing and
bragging? She was after all vulgar enough, and by the time I had
mastered her profile and could almost with my eyes shut do it in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stream; but scarce had his great bulk been screened by the dense
foliage than he wheeled about and came cautiously back to the
edge of the clearing where he could see without being seen.
Tantor, by nature, is suspicious. Now he still feared the return
of the she Tarmangani who had attempted to attack his Korak.
He would just stand there for a moment and assure himself that
all was well before he continued on toward the water. Ah! It
was well that he did! There she was now dropping from the
branches of a tree across the clearing and running swiftly toward
the ape-man. Tantor waited. He would let her reach Korak before
he charged--that would ensure that she had no chance of escape.
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