| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: always with a good business excuse warranted to endure raillery
and sarcasm, that it was impossible to say they had come of set
purpose to sun themselves in feminine smiles.
As for Nora, it is not too much to say that she was having the
time of her life. Detroit, Michigan, could offer no such field
for her expansive charms as the Bighorn country, Wyoming. Here
she might have her pick of a hundred, and every one of them
picturesquely begirt with flannel shirt, knotted scarf at neck,
an arsenal that bristled, and a sun-tan that could be achieved
only in the outdoors of the Rockies. Certainly these knights of
the saddle radiated a romance with which even her floorwalker
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: me. I forgot our l'Estorade. But didn't you tell me you were going to
make a genius of him? I know what that means. You will dry nurse him
till some day he is able to understand you.
Good-bye. I am a little off my head, and must stop.
XVIII
MME. DE L'ESTORADE TO LOUISE DE CHAULIEU
April.
My angel--or ought I not rather to say my imp of evil?--you have,
without meaning it, grieved me sorely. I would say wounded were we not
one soul. And yet it is possible to wound oneself.
How plain it is that you have never realized the force of the word
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: A puzzled amazement awoke in every face in the
house, not even excepting Potter's. Every eye fast-
ened itself with wondering interest upon Tom as he
rose and took his place upon the stand. The boy
looked wild enough, for he was badly scared. The
oath was administered.
"Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth
of June, about the hour of midnight?"
Tom glanced at Injun Joe's iron face and his tongue
failed him. The audience listened breathless, but the
words refused to come. After a few moments, however,
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