| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: woods. She was slight and delicate. The neighbours called her
sickly; and a great doctor from Philadelphia who had spent a summer
at Bytown had put his ear to her chest, and looked grave, and said
that she ought to winter in a mild climate. That was before people
had discovered the Adirondacks as a sanitarium for consumptives.
But the inhabitants of Bytown were not in the way of paying much
attention to the theories of physicians in regard to climate. They
held that if you were rugged, it was a great advantage, almost a
virtue; but if you were sickly, you just had to make the best of it,
and get along with the weather as well as you could.
So Serena stayed at home and adapted herself very cheerfully to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad
of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish
feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the
shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes,
arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines
thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to
encounter as the plumage of a goose. Howbeit, in despite of
heavy blows and light pay, a cavalier of fortune may thrive
indifferently well in the Imperial service, in respect his
private casualties are nothing so closely looked to as by the
Swede; and so that an officer did his duty on the field, neither
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: Clockborough came out to me when he said, as if he had no memory of
our original talk and the idea were quite fresh to him: "I hate
his type, you know, but I'll be hanged if I don't put some of those
things in. I can find a place for them: we might even find a
place for the fellow himself." I myself should have had some fear-
-not, I need scarcely say, for the "things" themselves, but for
some other things very near them; in fine for the rest of my
eloquence.
Later on I could see that the oracle of Wimbledon was not in this
case so appropriate as he would have been had the polities of the
gods only coincided more exactly with those of the party. There
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