| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: And, as he spoke, up came Frank, and after due greetings, sat down
beside them on the ridge.
"I say, brother, here's Eustace trying already to convert me; and
telling me that I owe all my luck to the Blessed Virgin's prayers
for me.
"It may be so," said Frank; "at least you owe it to the prayers of
that most pure and peerless virgin by whose commands you sailed;
the sweet incense of whose orisons has gone up for you daily, and
for whose sake you were preserved from flood and foe, that you
might spread the fame and advance the power of the spotless
championess of truth, and right, and freedom,--Elizabeth, your
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: dark archways; Giovanelli was in front with the carriage.
Here Daisy stopped a moment, looking at the young American.
"DID you believe I was engaged, the other day?" she asked.
"It doesn't matter what I believed the other day,"
said Winterbourne, still laughing.
"Well, what do you believe now?"
"I believe that it makes very little difference whether you
are engaged or not!"
He felt the young girl's pretty eyes fixed upon him through
the thick gloom of the archway; she was apparently going to answer.
But Giovanelli hurried her forward. "Quick! quick!" he said;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat
are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I
would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and
sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor firefly has shown me the
causeway to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal
that we have never seen one of her features. The walker in the
familiar fields which stretch around my native town sometimes
finds himself in another land than is described in their owners'
deeds, as it were in some faraway field on the confines of the
actual Concord, where her jurisdiction ceases, and the idea which
the word Concord suggests ceases to be suggested. These farms
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