| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: By sending me a letter? Read it again.
STEWARD.
[Reads.]
'I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:
Ambitious love hath so in me offended
That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,
With sainted vow my faults to have amended.
Write, write, that from the bloody course of war
My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:
Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far
His name with zealous fervour sanctify:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: their departure, the principal personages of our story, including
good Uncle Venner, were assembled in the parlor.
"The country-house is certainly a very fine one, so far as the
plan goes," observed Holgrave, as the party were discussing their
future arrangements. "But I wonder that the late Judge--being so
opulent, and with a reasonable prospect of transmitting his wealth
to descendants of his own--should not have felt the propriety of
embodying so excellent a piece of domestic architecture in stone,
rather than in wood. Then, every generation of the family might
have altered the interior, to suit its own taste and convenience;
while the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been
House of Seven Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: too far undermined, and he bad been unable to withstand the shock
of the operation, and he had died in the hospital. There weren't
any relatives, except distant ones on her mother's side, somewhere
out in California, whom she had never seen. She and her father
had been all in all to each other, chums, pals, comrades, since her
mother's death many years ago. She had gone everywhere with him
save when the demands of her education had necessarily kept them
apart; she had hunted with him in South America, ridden with him
in sections where civilization was still in the making, shared the
crude, rough life of mining camps with him - and it had seemed as
though her life, too, had gone out with his.
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