| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: will ruin my career. And all because in a moment of fearful
temptation I yielded, God help me."
"God help you!" The angry scorn in Miller's voice burned like
vitriol. "God help you! you selfish villain and coward! You
pursued her! You hounded her. You made your own temptation--and
hers. And afterward you left her to bear a lifetime of shame--to
kill herself if she couldn't stand it. When I think of you, smug
liar and hell hound, I know that killing isn't good enough for
you."
"Steady, old man," counseled Jeff.
Miller began to tremble violently. Tears gathered in his eyes and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: Still Nancy was silent, looking down; and he almost expected that
she would presently get up and say she would go to her father's.
How could she have any mercy for faults that must seem so black to
her, with her simple, severe notions?
But at last she lifted up her eyes to his again and spoke. There
was no indignation in her voice--only deep regret.
"Godfrey, if you had but told me this six years ago, we could have
done some of our duty by the child. Do you think I'd have refused
to take her in, if I'd known she was yours?"
At that moment Godfrey felt all the bitterness of an error that was
not simply futile, but had defeated its own end. He had not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: resisted.
"A man needs someone around," he declared, "when he's going
through a thing like this. I need all of you, all of you," and
with his eyes he embraced the weary circle of faces about him.
"I feel as though I could go out of my head," he explained and
with that he began tucking the three small mites in the pink and
white crib designed for but one.
Zoie regarded him with a bored expression'
"You act as though you WERE out of your head," she commented, but
Alfred did not heed her. He was now engaged in the unhoped for
bliss of singing three babies to sleep with one lullaby.
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