| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: rich pupils, also--perhaps begin with such altogether. Then,
when I've got a start, I can take in a ragamuffin or two, just
for a relish. Rich people's children often need care and comfort,
as well as poor. I've seen unfortunate little creatures left to
servants, or backward ones pushed forward, when it's real cruelty.
Some are naughty through mismanagment or neglect, and some lose
their mothers. Besides, the best have to get through the hobbledehoy
age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness.
People laugh at them, and hustle them about, try to keep them
out of sight, and expect them to turn all at once from pretty
children into fine young men. They don't complain much--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: manner of his driving sets the last touch upon this eminently
youthful business. The weather was then so warm that I must keep
the windows open; the night without was populous with moths. As
the late darkness deepened, my literary tapers beaconed forth more
brightly; thicker and thicker came the dusty night-fliers, to
gyrate for one brilliant instant round the flame and fall in
agonies upon my paper. Flesh and blood could not endure the
spectacle; to capture immortality was doubtless a noble enterprise,
but not to capture it at such a cost of suffering; and out would go
the candles, and off would I go to bed in the darkness raging to
think that the blow might fall on the morrow, and there was VOCES
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: for the present we'll let the university question take care of
itself."
"What are you going to do, Beatrice?"
"Heaven knows. It seems my fate to fret away my years in this
country. Not for a second do I regret being Americanindeed, I
think that a regret typical of very vulgar people, and I feel
sure we are the great coming nationyet"and she sighed"I feel my
life should have drowsed away close to an older, mellower
civilization, a land of greens and autumnal browns"
Amory did not answer, so his mother continued:
"My regret is that you haven't been abroad, but still, as you are
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