| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: It brought her back to a sharper sense of her central peril:
of the secret to be kept from him at whatever cost to her
racked nerves.
"Oh, you know, he doesn't always wait for orders!" On the
whole it sounded better than she'd feared.
"You mean he's called me one already?" He accepted the fact
with his gayest laugh. "Well, that saves a lot of trouble;
now we can pass to the order of the day----" he broke off
and glanced at the clock--"which is, you know, dear, that
she's starting in about an hour; she and Adelaide must
already be snatching a hasty sandwich. You'll come down to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: stayed with him until the doctors operated for
appendicitis at five o'clock. They were afraid
it was too late to do much good; it should
have been done three days ago. Amedee was in
a very bad way. Emil had just come home,
worn out and sick himself. She had given him
some brandy and put him to bed.
Marie hung up the receiver. Poor Amedee's
illness had taken on a new meaning to her, now
that she knew Emil had been with him. And it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: get away from old Mrs. Beverly."
"'She cannot possibly be less than sixty-five,' Ethel presently
announced. 'And she is far more likely to be seventy.'"
"I thought it best to agree to any age that Ethel chose to give the old
lady."
"'Do you suppose,' Ethel continued, 'that she does it by telephone?'"
"'My dearest,' I responded, 'he must do it all for her, of course, you
know.'"
"'I doubt that very much, Richard. And she strikes me as being the sort
of character for whom a mere telephone would not be enough excitement.
The nerves of those people require more and more stimulants to give them
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