| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.
Of course that is all that is expected of us when we are on mantels and
cabinets and drawing-room tables, but our lives are much pleasanter
here in our own country."
"I would not make you unhappy for all the world!" exclaimed Dorothy.
"So I'll just say good-bye."
"Good-bye," replied the Princess.
They walked carefully through the china country. The little
animals and all the people scampered out of their way, fearing the
strangers would break them, and after an hour or so the travelers
reached the other side of the country and came to another china wall.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: father's flagrant infraction of the Countess' rules. The man's
odd indifference was explained to me by a mild altercation which
at once arose with the canon. The Count was suffering from some
serious complaint. I cannot remember now what it was, but his
medical advisers had put him on a very severe regimen, and the
ferocious hunger familiar to convalescents, sheer animal
appetite, had overpowered all human sensibilities. In that little
space I had seen frank and undisguised human nature under two
very different aspects, in such a sort that there was a certain
grotesque element in the very midst of a most terrible tragedy.
The evening that followed was dreary. I was tired. The canon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: be thou at George's apartments by two of the clock to be dressed
fittingly for the occasion."
Then Myles went out stupefied, dazed, bewildered. He looked
around, but he did not see Gascoyne. He said not a word to any of
the others in answer to the eager questions poured upon him by
his fellow-squires, but walked straight away. He hardly knew
where he went, but by-and-by he found himself in a grassy angle
below the end of the south stable; a spot overlooking the outer
wall and the river beyond. He looked around; no one was near, and
he flung himself at length, burying his face in his arms. How
long he lay there he did not know, but suddenly some one touched
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