| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: arrow.
The next--whether before or after the first in time, it suits me to
speak of him in second place--was the man who was the potential
ancestor of the whole Ritterschaft, Chivalry, and knightly caste of
Europe; the man who first, finding a foal upon the steppe, deserted
by its dam, brought it home, and reared it; and then bethought him
of the happy notion of making it draw--presumably by its tail--a
fashion which endured long in Ireland, and had to be forbidden by
law, I think as late as the sixteenth century. A great aristocrat
must that man have become. A greater still he who first substituted
the bit for the halter. A greater still he who first thought of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: hospital a lot. And if anybody dares say one little word about
you, I'll tend to them. . . . Aunt Pitty, don't cry. It has been
hard on Scarlett, not going anywhere. She's just a baby." Her
fingers played in Scarlett's black hair. "And maybe we'd all be
better off if we went out occasionally to parties. Maybe we've
been very selfish, staying here with our grief. War times aren't
like other times. When I think of all the soldiers in town who
are far from home and haven't any friends to call on at night--and
the ones in the hospital who are well enough to be out of bed and
not well enough to go back in the army-- Why, we have been
selfish. We ought to have three convalescents in our house this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: ardently desired by me, was of course as tender as the
commencement. Poor Manon related all her adventures, and I told
her mine: we bitterly wept over each other's story. M. de T----
consoled us by his renewed promises to exert himself in our
service. He advised us not to make this, our first interview, of
too long duration, that he might have the less difficulty in
procuring us the same enjoyment again. He at length induced us
to follow his advice. Manon especially could not reconcile
herself to the separation: she made me a hundred times resume my
seat. At one time she held me by my hands, at another by my
coat. `Alas!' she said, `in what an abode do you leave me! Who
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