| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: half later by the sudden burst of iniquity with which two or
more cats saw fit to shake the silence of the rose-garden.
As I threw out the boot-jack, I noticed the dawn. And as
further sleep seemed out of the question, I decided to dress and
go out into the woods.
When I slipped out of Knight's Bottom into the sunlit road to
find myself face to face with a Punch and Judy show, I was not
far from being momentarily disconcerted. For a second it
occurred to me that I might be dreaming, but, though I listened
carefully, I could hear no cats, so I sat down on the bank by
the side of the road and prepared to contemplate the phenomenon.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: careless happiness of her first home.
In the pride of being a housewife she loved every detail--
the brocade armchair with the weak back, even the brass water-
cock on the hot-water reservoir, when she had become familiar
with it by trying to scour it to brilliance.
She found a maid--plump radiant Bea Sorenson from
Scandia Crossing. Bea was droll in her attempt to be at once
a respectful servant and a bosom friend. They laughed
together over the fact that the stove did not draw, over the
slipperiness of fish in the pan.
Like a child playing Grandma in a trailing skirt, Carol
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: and his head in his hands, and Mrs. Tristram continued to temper
charity with philosophy and compassion with criticism.
At last she inquired, "And what does the Count Valentin say to it?"
Newman started; he had not thought of Valentin and his errand
on the Swiss frontier since the morning. The reflection made
him restless again, and he took his leave. He went straight
to his apartment, where, upon the table of the vestibule,
he found a telegram. It ran (with the date and place) as follows:
"I am seriously ill; please to come to me as soon as possible.
V. B." Newman groaned at this miserable news, and at the necessity
of deferring his journey to the Chateau de Fleurieres.
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