| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: gave her greater pleasure than anything she had ever heard.
"A pretty woman?" some one had said. "Why, her features
are very bad." "I don't know about her features," a very
discerning observer had answered; "but she carries her head
like a pretty woman." You may imagine whether, after this,
she carried her head less becomingly.
She turned away from the window at last, pressing her hands to her eyes.
"It 's too horrible!" she exclaimed. "I shall go back--I shall go back!"
And she flung herself into a chair before the fire.
"Wait a little, dear child," said the young man softly,
sketching away at his little scraps of paper.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: such a case."
Miss Parmalee, who had a sense of humor, laughed
a little. "It is bewildering," she admitted. "And
now the other children see how it is, and call her
'Copy-Cat' to her face, but she does not mind. I
doubt if she understands, and neither does Lily, for
that matter. Lily Jennings is full of mischief, but
she moves in straight lines; she is not conceited or
self-conscious, and she really likes Amelia, without
knowing why."
"I fear Lily will lead Amelia into mischief," said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: Tony joined in the laugh, and this incident bridging the
preliminaries, the two young men were presently hobnobbing over a
glass of Canary in front of one of the coffee-houses about the
square. Tony counted himself lucky to have run across an
English-speaking companion who was good-natured enough to give
him a clue to the labyrinth; and when he had paid for the Canary
(in the coin his friend selected) they set out again to view the
town. The Italian gentleman, who called himself Count Rialto,
appeared to have a very numerous acquaintance, and was able to
point out to Tony all the chief dignitaries of the state, the men
of ton and ladies of fashion, as well as a number of other
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