| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: after he had lit a fresh cigar, dropped the match
most despairingly. Any one could see, with
half an eye, that his proud heart was bleeding
for somebody.
One Sunday, late in the summer after Marie's
graduation, she met Frank at a Bohemian pic-
nic down the river and went rowing with him all
the afternoon. When she got home that even-
ing she went straight to her father's room and
told him that she was engaged to Shabata. Old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: for Maria--for Mrs. St. Michael--just at present. Her young cousin, John
Mayrant, is making an alliance deeply vexatious to her. Do you happen to
know Miss Hortense Rieppe?"
I had never heard of her.
"No? She has been North lately. I thought you might have met her. Her
father takes her North, I believe, whenever any one will invite them.
They have sometimes managed to make it extend through an unbroken year.
Newport, I am credibly informed, greatly admires her. We in Kings Port
have never (except John Mayrant, apparently) seen anything in her beauty,
which Northerners find so exceptional."
"What is her type?" I inquired.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: They'll weary of the money chase
And want to find a resting place
Where hum of wheel is never heard
And no one speaks an angry word,
And selfishness and greed and pride
And petty motives don't abide.
They'll need a place where they can go
To wash their souls as white as snow.
They will be better men and true
If they can play a day or two."
The Lord then made the brooks to flow
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