| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: "Now, Miss Lowery," broke in Tripp, loudly, and with much bad taste, I
thought, as she hesitated with her word, "you like this young man,
Hiram Dodd, don't you? He's all right, and good to you, ain't he?"
"Of course I like him," said Miss Lowery emphatically. "Hi's all
right. And of course he's good to me. So is everybody."
I could have sworn it myself. Throughout Miss Ada Lowery's life all
men would be to good to her. They would strive, contrive, struggle,
and compete to hold umbrellas over her hat, check her trunk, pick up
her handkerchief, buy for her soda at the fountain.
"But," went on Miss Lowery, "last night got to thinking about G--
George, and I--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: by no means always, characterises the female as distinguished from the male
of the human species, there do go mental qualities which will peculiarly
fit her for the labours of the future. It may be, that her lesser
possession of the mere muscular and osseous strength, which were the
elements of primary importance and which gave dominance in one stage of
human growth, and which placed woman at a social disadvantage as compared
with her companion, will, under new conditions of life, in which the value
of crude mechanical strength as distinguished from high vitality and strong
nervous activity is passing away, prove as largely to her advantage, as his
muscular bulk and strength in the past proved to the male. It is quite
possible, in the new world which is arising about us, that the type of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: none but the dead, and, tossed hither and thither in their last sleep,
they looked awful in the glare of the torches.
"They sleep sound," said the Lily, gazing on them; "rest is sweet."
"We shall soon win it, maiden," answered Galazi, and again Nada
trembled.
Then, having arrayed her in the dress of a warrior, and put a shield
and spear by her, they laid down the body of the girl in a dark place
in the cave, and, finding a dead warrior of the People of the Axe,
placed him beside her. Now they left the cave, and, pretending that
they visited the sentries, Umslopogaas and Galazi passed from spot to
spot, while the Lily walked after them like a guard, hiding her face
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