| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: snow; and, while he was still raking out some
frozen lumps from the gutter, his foot slipped and
he fell over. Unfortunately he did not fall on the
snow, but on a piece of iron over the door. Us-
tinia came running up, together with the mer-
chant's daughter.
"Have you hurt yourself, Alyosha?"
"Ah! no, it's nothing."
But he could not raise himself when he tried
to, and began to smile.
He was taken into the lodge. The doctor ar-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: gave in their testimony in relatively pacific tones,
under the influence of the spell which good music had
laid upon the gathering. There was the deepest interest
as to what the two visitors would do in this way.
Brother Soulsby spoke first, very briefly and in well rounded
and well-chosen, if conventional, phrases. His wife,
following him, delivered in a melodious monotone some
equally hackneyed remarks. The assemblage, listening in
rapt attention, felt the suggestion of reserved power in
every sentence she uttered, and burst forth, as she dropped
into her seat, in a loud chorus of approving ejaculations.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: up their warring. It was too real, and yet it was not
reconcilable with the calm of our resting-places.
For hours we lay thus in all the intensity of an
inner storm and stress, which it seemed could not
fail to develop us, to mould us, to age us, to leave
on us its scars, to bequeath us its peace or remorse or
despair, as would some great mysterious dark experience
direct from the sources of life. And then
abruptly we were exhausted, as we should have been
by too great emotion. We fell asleep. The morning
dawned still and clear, and garnished and set in
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