| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: So she bore the pain of raw blisters and the miserable sensation of
staggering on under a leaden weight.
Several times she noted that Flo and Stanton halted to face each other in
rather heated argument. At least Stanton's red face and forceful gestures
attested to heat on his part. Flo evidently was weary of argument, and in
answer to a sharp reproach she retorted, "Shore I was different after he
came." To which Stanton responded by a quick passionate shrinking as if he
had been stung.
Carley had her own reaction to this speech she could not help hearing; and
inwardly, at least, her feeling must have been similar to Stanton's. She
forgot the object of this climb and looked off to her right at the green
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: Never saying a word about it all morning when he was with me."
"Yes," agreed Madame Ratignolle. "I think it was showing us
all--you especially--very little consideration. It wouldn't have
surprised me in any of the others; those Lebruns are all given to
heroics. But I must say I should never have expected such a thing
from Robert. Are you not coming down? Come on, dear; it doesn't
look friendly."
"No," said Edna, a little sullenly. "I can't go to the
trouble of dressing again; I don't feel like it."
"You needn't dress; you look all right; fasten a belt around
your waist. Just look at me!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Turnbull's shocking death put all else out of my mind; I never once
thought of the dogs."
"In spite of the fact that it was a wager over the dogs which
brought about the whole situation?" remarked the coroner dryly.
Barbara flushed at his tone, then grew pale.
"I honestly forgot about the dogs," she repeated. "Father sent
them out to our country place Tuesday afternoon; they annoyed our
- our guest, Mrs. Brewster."
"In what way?"
"By barking - 'they are noisy dogs."
"And yet they did not arouse the household when Mr. Turnbull broke
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