| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: will be as good for your mind as riding has been for
your health, and as much for your ultimate happiness too."
So ended their discourse, which, for any very appropriate
service it could render Fanny, might as well have been spared,
for Mrs. Norris had not the smallest intention of taking her.
It had never occurred to her, on the present occasion,
but as a thing to be carefully avoided. To prevent its
being expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation
which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield
parish, the White House being only just large enough to
receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: weeds that are usually in it; for if that be not very clean, it will make
him to taste very sour. Having so done, put some sweet herbs into his
belly; and then tie him with two or three splinters to a spit, and roast
him, basted often with vinegar, or rather verjuice and butter, with good
store of salt mixed with it.
Being thus dressed, you will find him a much better dish of meat than
you, or most folk, even than anglers themselves, do imagine: for this
dries up the fluid watery humour with which all Chubs do abound. But
take this rule with you, That a Chub newly taken and newly dressed, is
so much better than a Chub of a day's keeping after he is dead, that L
can compare him to nothing so fitly as to cherries newly gathered from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "But dear Annie does not realize it," said
Jane.
Benny got up lumberingly and left the room. He
loved his sister Annie, but he hated the mild simmer
of feminine rancor to which even his father's pres-
ence failed to add a masculine flavor. Benny was
always leaving the room and allowing his sisters
"to fight it out."
Just after he left there was a tremendous peal
of thunder and a blue flash, and they all prayed
again, except Annie; who was occupied with her own
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