| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: her to repair instead to the only man upon whose resource she might
depend, provided he were willing to exert it. That man was Anthony
Wilding, and whether Diana urged it from motives of her own or out
of concern for Richard, it would be difficult to say with certainty.
The very thought of going to him for aid, after all that had passed,
was repugnant to Ruth. And yet what choice had she? Convinced by her
cousin and urged by her affection and duty to Richard, she repressed
her aversion, and, calling for a horse, rode out to Zoyland Chase,
attended by a groom. Wilding by good fortune was at home, hard at
work upon a mass of documents in that same library where she had
talked with him on the occasion of her first visit to his home - to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: last he was comforted a little, and gave his solemn promise he
wouldn't hang himself till after the race; and wouldn't do it at
all if she won it, which made her happy, and she said she would win
it or die in the saddle; so then everything was pleasant again and
both of them content. He can't help playing jokes on her, he is so
fond of her and she is so innocent and unsuspecting; and when she
finds it out she cuffs him and is in a fury, but presently forgives
him because it's him; and maybe the very next day she's caught with
another joke; you see she can't learn any better, because she
hasn't any deceit in her, and that kind aren't ever expecting it in
another person.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: from this?"
"No, sir. Never happened to. My cousin at Bald Knob did."
"Died?"
"No, sir. Saw a man."
"But how do you know they're not sick skunks?"
"No, sir! They're well skunks. Well as anything. You'll not meet
skunks in any state of the Union more robust than them in
Arkansaw. And thick."
"That's awful true," sighed another. "I have buried hundreds of
dollars' worth of clothes in Arkansaw."
"Why didn't yu' travel in a sponge bag?" inquired Scipio. And
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