| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: They had by this time reached the house. Mr Haredale paused for a
moment, and looked at her as if surprised by the energy of her
manner. Observing, however, that she took no heed of him, but
glanced up, shuddering, at the old walls with which such horrors
were connected in her mind, he led her by a private stair into his
library, where Emma was seated in a window, reading.
The young lady, seeing who approached, hastily rose and laid aside
her book, and with many kind words, and not without tears, gave her
a warm and earnest welcome. But the widow shrunk from her embrace
as though she feared her, and sunk down trembling on a chair.
'It is the return to this place after so long an absence,' said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: could never be subdued. She had a king at last--a real
king. Gott! How he had changed. It reminded Prince von
der Tann of the day he had ridden beside the imposter two
years before in the battle with the forces of Peter of Blentz.
Many times he had caught himself scrutinizing the face of
the monarch, searching for some proof that after all he
was not Leopold.
"Direct the commanders of forts three and four to con-
centrate their fire on the enemy's guns directly north of Fort
No. 3," Barney directed an aide. "Simultaneously let the
cavalry and Colonel Kazov's infantry make a determined as-
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: women abstain from divorce!"
"Juliet would see deeper than such mothers. She could not have her little
sons and daughters grow up and comprehend their father's absences, and
see their mother's submission to his returns for such discovery would
scorch the marrow of any hearts they had."
At this, as we came out of the Library, he made an astonishing rejoinder,
and one which I cannot in the least account for: "South Carolina does not
allow divorce."
"Then I should think," I said to him, "that all you people here would be
doubly careful as to what manner of husbands and wives you chose for
yourselves."
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