| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: "I have no chance to get ahead.
At night I leave the job behind;
At morn I face the same old grind.
And everything I do by day
Just brings to me the same old pay.
While I am here I cannot see
The semblance of a chance for me."
I asked another how he viewed
The occupation he pursued.
"It's dull and dreary toil," said he,
"And brings but small reward to me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: into the passage, I fastened the door with the hook. 'Go to your
husband,' I cried. 'Don't shame me before folks. Fear God!' And
every day there was a scene of that sort.
"One morning I was standing in my yard near the stable cleaning a
bridle. All at once I saw her running through the little gate
into my yard, with bare feet, in her petticoat, and straight
towards me; she clutched at the bridle, getting all smeared with
the pitch, and shaking and weeping, she cried: 'I can't stand
him; I loathe him; I can't bear it! If you don't love me, better
kill me!' I was angry, and I struck her twice with the bridle,
but at that instant Vasya ran in at the gate, and in a despairing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "That I may become the prey of such as you, instead," was her retort.
He looked at her a moment, smiling sadly. Then, with pardonable
self-esteem when we think of what manner of man it was with whom
he now compared himself, "Surely," said he, "it is better to become
the prey of the lion than the jackal."
"To the victim it can matter little," she answered, and he saw the
tears gathering in her eyes.
Compassion moved him. It rose in arms to batter down his will, and
in a weaker man had triumphed. Mr. Wilding bent his knee and went
down beside her.
"I swear," he said impassionedly, "that as my wife you shall never
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