| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: been of service to you. But it's time for me to go."
"I hope you will favor me with another interview," said the king, "for
I am much interested in your electrical inventions. I will instruct
my guards to admit you at any time, so you will not be obliged to
fight your way in."
"All right. But it really doesn't matter," answered Rob. "It's no
trouble at all to knock 'em over."
Then he remembered his manners and bowed low before the king, who
seemed to him "a fine fellow and not a bit stuck up." And then he
walked calmly from the palace.
The people in the outer room stared at him wonderingly and the officer
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: engagement."
"To go back to wealth and dignity in New York?"
"Yes."
"But you don't love him?"
"That's always been plain to me. But what I didn't realize,
until I had given my promise over again, was that I dislike
him acutely."
"You hadn't realized that before?"
"I hadn't thought about him sufficiently. But now I had to
think about him a lot. The other affair had given me an idea
perhaps of what it means to be married to a man. And here I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Her high prerogative it is to offer fitting first-fruits to high
heaven, hers to furnish forth the overflowing festal board.[14] Hers
is a kindly presence in the household. She is the good wife's
favourite, the children long for her, she waves her hand winningly to
the master's friends.
[14] Or, "to appoint the festal board most bounteously."
For myself, I marvel greatly if it has ever fallen to the lot of
freeborn man to own a choicer possesion, or to discover an occupation
more seductive, or of wider usefulness in life than this.
But, furthermore, earth of her own will[15] gives lessons in justice
and uprightness to all who can understand her meaning, since the
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