| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: was no limit to his capacity for wilful harmfulness.
"Look here, Streff, you and I know that Ellie hasn't been away
for a cure; and that if poor Clarissa was sworn to secrecy it
was not because it 'worries father' to think that mother needs
to take care of her health." She paused, hating herself for the
ironic note she had tried to sound.
"Well--?" he questioned, from the depths of the chair into which
he had sunk.
"Well, Nick doesn't ... doesn't dream of it. If he knew that we
owed our summer here to ... to my knowing...."
Strefford sat silent: she felt his astonished stare through the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: first thing the students learn is that all wealth comes out of
the earth. The babies play in the meadows and learn the names of
flowers and birds. The heritage of childhood is the out-of-doors.
I heard of some children in the city who found a mouse and
thought it was a rabbit. But when the city-born children come to
Mooseheart they come into their own. They trap rabbits and
woodchucks, fight bumblebees' nests, wade and fish in the creek
and go boating and swimming in the river and the clear lake.
When a boy gets old enough to leave the kindergarten and start
in the primary school he mixes agricultural studies with his
books. First he plants a small garden and tends it. Then he is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,
And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.
PLANTAGENET.
Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
SOMERSET.
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
PLANTAGENET.
Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;
Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
SOMERSET. Well, I 'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
That shall maintain what I have said is true,
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