| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: "Oh, Marilla, it's just lovely," said Anne. "Thank you so
much. I don't believe you ought to be so kind to me--it's
making it harder every day for me to go away."
The green dress was made up with as many tucks and frills
and shirrings as Emily's taste permitted. Anne put it
on one evening for Matthew's and Marilla's benefit,
and recited "The Maiden's Vow" for them in the kitchen.
As Marilla watched the bright, animated face and graceful
motions her thoughts went back to the evening Anne had
arrived at Green Gables, and memory recalled a vivid
picture of the odd, frightened child in her preposterous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: now. His words came haltingly and great drops stood out on his
forehead.
The painter rose from the sand and he too wiped his face, which was
drawn in agony.
"Herbert, Herbert!" cried Adele Bernauer suddenly. "Oh, Herbert,
you will live, you will! Promise me, you will not think of suicide,
it would kill your wife - "
She lay on her knees before him in the sand. He looked down at her
gently and with a gesture which seemed to be a familiar one of days
long past, he stroked the face that had grown old and worn in these
hours of fear for him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: I can't do either when we are alone. I don't know what she says--
I mean what mamma says; what Blanche says I know as well
as if I heard it. We see nothing of Captain Lovelock,
and mamma tells me she has not spoken of him for two days.
She thinks this is a better symptom, but I am not so sure.
Poor Mr. Wright treats it as a great triumph that Blanche should
behave as he foretold. He is welcome to the comfort he can get
out of this, for he certainly gets none from anything else.
The society of your correspondent is not that balm to his spirit
which he appeared to expect, and this in spite of the fact
that I have been as gentle and kind with him as I know
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