| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: white country roads, diversify the uneven surface of the
land. Trains crawl slowly abroad upon the railway lines;
little ships are tacking in the Firth; the shadow of a
mountainous cloud, as large as a parish, travels before
the wind; the wind itself ruffles the wood and standing
corn, and sends pulses of varying colour across the
landscape. So you sit, like Jupiter upon Olympus, and
look down from afar upon men's life. The city is as
silent as a city of the dead: from all its humming
thoroughfares, not a voice, not a footfall, reaches you
upon the hill. The sea-surf, the cries of ploughmen, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: was there themselves." The two stared at each other
again over this avowal, till Charity brought out,
in a gasp of anguish: "Oh, go--go--go--or I'll hate you
too...."
When Ally left her, she fell sobbing across her bed.
The long storm was followed by a north-west gale, and
when it was over, the hills took on their first umber
tints, the sky grew more densely blue, and the big
white clouds lay against the hills like snow-banks. The
first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss
Hatchard's lawn, and the Virginia creeper on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: fields shared by men, and not into others peculiarly reserved for her, is
so desirable. (The reply once given by the wife of a leading barrister,
when reference was made to the fact that she and her husband were seldom
found in each other's society, throws a painful but true light on certain
aspects of modern life, against which the entire woman's movement of our
age is a rebellion. "My husband," she said, "is always increasingly
absorbed in his legal duties, of which I understand nothing, and which so
do not interest me. My children are all growing up and at school. I have
servants enough to attend to my house. When he comes home in the evening,
if I try to amuse him by telling him of the things I have been doing during
the day, of the bazaars I am working for, the shopping I have done, the
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