| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: no one on earth whom you sometimes remember?"
"Not since I have seen you," he replied; for, being a man, he had
indeed forgotten.
Still she stood motionless, and he saw that the shadow deepened
on her soul.
"Surely, love," he rebuked her, "it was not that which troubled
you? For my part I have walked through Lethe. The past has
melted like a cloud before the moon. I never lived until I saw
you."
She made no answer to his pleadings, but at length, rousing
herself with a visible effort, she turned away from him and moved
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: absently toward the church as he sat fumbling with the lock of
the little brown satchel.
He had gone from store to store in the various towns where they
had played looking for something to inspire wonder in the heart
of a miss, newly arrived at her sixteenth year. Only the
desperation of a last moment had forced him to decide upon the
imitation alligator bag, which he now held in his hand.
It looked small and mean to him as the moment of presentation
approached, and he was glad that the saleswoman in the little
country store had suggested the addition of ribbons and laces,
which he now drew from the pocket of his corduroys. He placed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: D'Artagnan saw a cavalier coming toward the house at full
gallop.
It was Mordaunt.
D'Artagnan rushed out of the room.
Porthos wanted to follow him.
"Stay," said D'Artagnan, "and do not come till you hear me
drum my fingers on the door."
When Mordaunt arrived opposite the house he saw D'Artagnan
on the threshold and the soldiers lying on the grass here
and there, with their arms.
"Halloo!" he cried, "are the prisoners still there?"
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