| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: than one might have expected. He had not
become a trim, self-satisfied city man. There
was still something homely and wayward and
definitely personal about him. Even his clothes,
his Norfolk coat and his very high collars, were
a little unconventional. He seemed to shrink
into himself as he used to do; to hold him-
self away from things, as if he were afraid
of being hurt. In short, he was more self-con-
scious than a man of thirty-five is expected to
be. He looked older than his years and not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: ers out of town before this time."
So there it was! -- but I couldn't help it. Tom and
me was to sleep in the same room and bed; so, being
tired, we bid good-night and went up to bed right after
supper, and clumb out of the window and down the
lightning-rod, and shoved for the town; for I didn't
believe anybody was going to give the king and the
duke a hint, and so if I didn't hurry up and give them
one they'd get into trouble sure.
On the road Tom he told me all about how it was
reckoned I was murdered, and how pap disappeared
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: methods, and in exactly the same subjects, as men. British lads,
on an average, are far too ill-taught still, in spite of all
recent improvements, for me to wish that British girls should be
taught in the same way.
Moreover, whatever defects there may have been--and defects there
must be in all things human--in the past education of British
women, it has been most certainly a splendid moral success. It
has made, by the grace of God, British women the best wives,
mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, that the world, as far as I
can discover, has yet seen.
Let those who will, sneer at the women of England. We who have to
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