| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Of old, more than once, she had gone, for entertainment's sake
and in brilliant company, to a fair in a provincial town.
It seemed to her now that she was at an enormous fair--
that the entertainment and the desagrements were very much the same.
She found herself alternately smiling and shrinking;
the show was very curious, but it was probable, from moment
to moment, that one would be jostled. The Baroness had never
seen so many people walking about before; she had never been
so mixed up with people she did not know. But little by little
she felt that this fair was a more serious undertaking.
She went with her brother into a large public garden, which seemed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: Mr. Bry, a short pale man, with a business face and leisure
clothes, met the dilemma hilariously.
"I guess the Duchess goes where it's cheapest, unless she can get
her meal paid for. If you offered to blow her off at the TERRASSE
she'd turn up fast enough."
But Mrs. Jack Stepney interposed. "The Grand Dukes go to that
little place at the Condamine. Lord Hubert says it's the only
restaurant in Europe where they can cook peas."
Lord Hubert Dacey, a slender shabby-looking man, with a charming
worn smile, and the air of having spent his best years in
piloting the wealthy to the right restaurant, assented with
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