| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: girl was not at that point where absence makes the heart grow
fonder. While the Virginian was trundling his long, responsible
miles in the caboose, delivering the cattle at Chicago,
vanquishing Trampas along the Yellowstone, she had regained
herself.
Thus it was that she could tell him so easily during those first
hours that they were alone after his return, "I expect to like
another man better than you."
Absence had recruited her. And then the Ogdens had reenforced
her. They brought the East back powerfully to her memory, and her
thoughts filled with it. They did not dream that they were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: know.'"
"'I doubt that very much, Richard. And she strikes me as being the sort
of character for whom a mere telephone would not be enough excitement.
The nerves of those people require more and more stimulants to give them
any sensation at all. I believe that she sits in his private office and
watches the ticker.'"
"'Why not give her a ticker in her bedroom while you are about it,
Ethel?' I suggested."
"But Ethel could not smile. 'I think that is perfectly probable,' she
answered. And then, 'Oh, Richard, isn't it mean!' At this I took her
hand, and she--but again I abstain from dwelling upon those circumstances
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: Ramsay. I mind I thought that lady inattentive and like one
preoccupied. I was besides very uncomfortable, for the window,
contrary to custom, was left open and the day was cold. All at once
the voice of Miss Grant sounded in my ears as from a distance.
"Here, Shaws!" she cried, "keek out of the window and see what I have
broughten you."
I think it was the prettiest sight that ever I beheld. The well of the
close was all in clear shadow where a man could see distinctly, the
walls very black and dingy; and there from the barred loophole I saw
two faces smiling across at me - Miss Grant's and Catriona's.
"There!" says Miss Grant, "I wanted her to see you in your braws like
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