| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: tactics, and retired grimly into the dignity of her high calling
of virtuous wife and mother. She washed her hands of Harmony and
Peter. She tied on her veil with shaking hands, and prepared to
leave Harmony to her fate.
"Give me your mother's address," she demanded.
"Certainly not."
"You absolutely refuse to save yourself?"
"From what? From Peter? There are many worse people than Peter to
save myself from, Mrs. Boyer--uncharitable people, and--and cruel
people."
Mrs. Boyer shrugged her plump shoulders.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: surrounding child-birth, we are presented with this evidence, given by
one woman concerning the birth of her last child:
On five o'clock on Wednesday evening she went to her sister's house to
return a washboard, after finishing a day's washing. The baby was
born while she was there. Her sister was too young to aid her in any
way. She was not accustomed to a midwife, she confessed. She cut the
cord herself, washed the new-born baby at her sister's house, walked
home, cooked supper for her boarders, and went to bed by eight
o'clock. The next day she got up and ironed. This tired her out, she
said, so she stayed in bed for two whole days. She milked cows the day
after the birth of the baby and sold the milk as well. Later in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: opened up a prospect of a brilliant future.
So, as he waited for Delphine, in the pretty boudoir, where he
felt that he had a certain right to be, he felt himself so far
away from the Rastignac who came back to Paris a year ago, that,
turning some power of inner vision upon this latter, he asked
himself whether that past self bore any resemblance to the
Rastignac of that moment.
"Madame is in her room," Therese came to tell him. The woman's
voice made him start.
He found Delphine lying back in her low chair by the fireside,
looking fresh and bright. The sight of her among the flowing
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