| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: admitted quite frankly that he preferred to stay where he was and
talk to Mrs. Pontellier.
"Well, send him about his business when he bores you, Edna,"
instructed her husband as he prepared to leave.
"Here, take the umbrella," she exclaimed, holding it out to
him. He accepted the sunshade, and lifting it over his head
descended the steps and walked away.
"Coming back to dinner?" his wife called after him. He halted
a moment and shrugged his shoulders. He felt in his vest pocket;
there was a ten-dollar bill there. He did not know; perhaps he
would return for the early dinner and perhaps he would not.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: my best friend; in truth, my father; none other have I
ever known, for the little old man of Torn, even though
I be the product of his loins, which I much mistrust, be
no father to me."
The priest sat looking intently at the young man for
many minutes before he spoke.
Without the cottage a swarthy figure skulked be-
neath one of the windows, listening to such fragments
of the conversation within as came to his attentive ears.
It was Spizo the Spaniard. He crouched entirely con-
cealed by a great lilac bush, which many times before
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Indian Club?" he added brokenly, "I don't mean the one in
Whitehall Court. The jagged one with nails in it. I would beat
my breast. Unworthy."
"Conundrum," said Jonah. "Where were the worthy worthies
worthy?"
"I know," said I. "They were worthy where they were."
"Where the blaze is," said Berry.
"The right answer," said Jonah, " is Eastbourne."
Daphne turned to Jill. "Is the trick-cycle ready, dear? We're
on next, you know."
Here a servant came in and announced that a picture had come for
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