| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: "His neck is broke," said my mother.
"And serve him right, too," said one of the colts.
I thought the same, but my mother did not join with us.
"Well, no," she said, "you must not say that; but though I am an old horse,
and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out
why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves,
often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare or a fox,
or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way;
but we are only horses, and don't know."
While my mother was saying this we stood and looked on.
Many of the riders had gone to the young man; but my master,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: almost queenly stateliness with the grace and beauty of a maiden
in her teens. A singular tale had gone abroad among the ladies of
the province, that their fair rival was indebted for much of the
irresistible charm of her appearance to a certain article of
dress--an embroidered mantle--which had been wrought by the most
skilful artist in London, and possessed even magical properties
of adornment. On the present occasion, however, she owed nothing
to the witchery of dress, being clad in a riding habit of velvet,
which would have appeared stiff and ungraceful on any other form.
The coachman reined in his four black steeds, and the whole
cavalcade came to a pause in front of the contorted iron
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Then, at last, Mr. Brand looked at her. Her father felt
her leaning more heavily upon his folded arm than she had
ever done before; and this, with a certain sweet faintness
in her voice, made him wonder what was the matter.
He looked down at her and saw the encounter of her gaze
with the young theologian's; but even this told him nothing,
and he continued to be bewildered. Nevertheless, "I consent,"
he said at last, "since Mr. Brand recommends it."
"I should like to perform the ceremony very soon," observed Mr. Brand,
with a sort of solemn simplicity.
"Come, come, that 's charming!" cried Felix, profanely.
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