| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: good-bye to Lord Illingworth first. I'll be back in five minutes.
[Exit.]
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Let him leave me if he chooses, but not with him -
not with him! I couldn't bear it. [Walks up and down.]
[Enter HESTER.]
HESTER. What a lovely night it is, Mrs. Arbuthnot.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Is it?
HESTER. Mrs. Arbuthnot, I wish you would let us be friends. You
are so different from the other women here. When you came into the
Drawing-room this evening, somehow you brought with you a sense of
what is good and pure in life. I had been foolish. There are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a glove about here," he said as we started down. But he was more
impressed than he cared to own. He examined the dusty steps
carefully, and once, when a bit of loose plaster fell just behind
him, he started like a nervous woman.
"What I don't understand is why you let her go," he said, stopping
once, puzzled. "You're not usually quixotic."
"When we get out into the country, Richey," I replied gravely, "I
am going to tell you another story, and if you don't tell me I'm a
fool and a craven, on the strength of it, you are no friend of mine."
We stumbled through the twilight of the staircase into the blackness
of the shuttered kitchen. The house had the moldy smell of closed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: relation to the general phenomenon of female parasitism be fully
recognised. It is the failure to do this which leaves so painful a sense
of abortion on the mind, after listening to most modern utterances on the
question, whether made from the emotional platform of the moral reformer,
or the intellectual platform of the would-be scientist. We are left with a
feeling that the matter has been handled but not dealt with: that the
knife has not reached the core.)
Wherever in the history of the past this type has reached its full
development and has comprised the bulk of the females belonging to any
dominant class or race, it has heralded its decay. In Assyria, Greece,
Rome, Persia, as in Turkey today, the same material conditions have
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