| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "I cannot believe it. Why should they try to influence him?
They can only wish his happiness; and if he is attached to me, no
other woman can secure it."
"Your first position is false. They may wish many things besides
his happiness; they may wish his increase of wealth and
consequence; they may wish him to marry a girl who has all the
importance of money, great connections, and pride."
"Beyond a doubt, they do wish him to choose Miss Darcy,"
replied Jane; "but this may be from better feelings than you are
supposing. They have known her much longer than they have
known me; no wonder if they love her better. But, whatever
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: pride in it after the manner of Dave and Sol-leks, and seeing that
his mates, whether they prided in it or not, did their fair share.
It was a monotonous life, operating with machine-like regularity.
One day was very like another. At a certain time each morning the
cooks turned out, fires were built, and breakfast was eaten.
Then, while some broke camp, others harnessed the dogs, and they
were under way an hour or so before the darkness fell which gave
warning of dawn. At night, camp was made. Some pitched the
flies, others cut firewood and pine boughs for the beds, and still
others carried water or ice for the cooks. Also, the dogs were
fed. To them, this was the one feature of the day, though it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: erratic hat was pinned to place, but it had slid rakishly to one
side. When I realized that she was staring, not at me, but past me
to the road along which we had come, I turned and followed her gaze.
There was no one in sight: the lane stretched dust white in the
sun, - no moving figure on it, no sign of life.
CHAPTER X
MISS WEST'S REQUEST
The surprising change in her held me speechless. All the animation
of the breakfast table was gone: there was no hint of the response
with which, before, she had met my nonsensical sallies. She stood
there, white-lipped, unsmiling, staring down the dusty road. One
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