| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: known her."
"Well," said Catherine, after some moments' consideration,
"you may be able to guess at your brother's intentions from
all this; but I am sure I cannot. But is not your father
uncomfortable about it? Does not he want Captain Tilney
to go away? Sure, if your father were to speak to him,
he would go."
"My dear Miss Morland," said Henry, "in this amiable
solicitude for your brother's comfort, may you not be
a little mistaken? Are you not carried a little too far?
Would he thank you, either on his own account or Miss
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: up with a shock, exclaiming] What a pair of fools we are! Come:
sit up. Gracious! your hair. [She smooths it]. I wonder do all
grown up people play in that childish way when nobody is looking.
I never did it when I was a child.
FRANK. Neither did I. You are my first playmate. [He catches
her hand to kiss it, but checks himself to look around first.
Very unexpectedly, he sees Crofts emerging from the box hedge].
Oh damn!
VIVIE. Why damn, dear?
FRANK [whispering] Sh! Here's this brute Crofts. [He sits
farther away from her with an unconcerned air].
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Thou knowest, though thy blinded eyes see naught,
What plague infects our city; and we turn
To thee, O seer, our one defense and shield.
The purport of the answer that the God
Returned to us who sought his oracle,
The messengers have doubtless told thee--how
One course alone could rid us of the pest,
To find the murderers of Laius,
And slay them or expel them from the land.
Therefore begrudging neither augury
Nor other divination that is thine,
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