| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Yet rested not Clorinda's working thought,
Which thirsted still for fame and warlike praise,
Argantes eke accompanied the maid
From place to place, which to herself thus said:
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"This day Argantes strong, and Solyman,
Strange things have done, and purchased great renown,
Among our foes out of the walls they ran,
Their rams they broke and rent their engines down:
I used my bow, of naught else boast I can,
My self stood safe meanwhile within this town,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Where it is positively proved, divorce would seem to be
the equitable remedy. Are you -- excuse me -- is this
man Jessup one to whom the lady may safely trust
her future?"
"Oh, you can bet on Jessup," said the client, with a
confident wag of his head. "Jessup's all right. He'll
do the square thing. Why, he left Susanville just to keep
pwple from talking about Mrs. Billings. But she fol-
lowed him up, and now, of course, he'll stick to her.
When she gets a divorce, all legal and proper, Jessup
the proper thing."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: me." He nodded paternally at Orde, beaming through his thick
spectacles.
That evening, well after six, Orde returned to the hotel. After
freshening up in the marbled and boarded washroom, he hunted up
Newmark.
"Well, Joe," said he, "I'm as hungry as a bear. Come on, eat, and
I'll tell you all about it."
They deposited their hats on the racks and pushed open the swinging
screen doors that led into the dining-room. There they were taken
in charge by a marvellously haughty and redundant head-waitress, who
signalled them to follow down through ranks of small tables watched
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