| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: to be taught, you know, to say, 'Yes'm,' and 'Yes, sir,' but now that is not
considered nice at all, and you must always say the name of the person you are
speaking to, especially if they are older people, to whom you ought to be
respectful," and Tattine sounded quite like a little grandmother herself as
she talked.
"Yes, we know, and it's an awful bother," sighed Rudolph. "We're fairly nagged
about it, Mabel and I, but Mother says she's going to keep it up until we
always do it. Perhaps we would get on faster if we practised by ourselves as
you do, but really, Tattine, it did sound as though you were out of your head,
to hear you saying all those sentences over to yourself."
While the children were having this little talk about politeness, Rudolph and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: hither."
"What the devil city, fortress, or castle is your worship talking
about, senor?" said Sancho; "don't you see that those are mills that
stand in the river to grind corn?"
"Hold thy peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "though they look like
mills they are not so; I have already told thee that enchantments
transform things and change their proper shapes; I do not mean to
say they really change them from one form into another, but that it
seems as though they did, as experience proved in the transformation
of Dulcinea, sole refuge of my hopes."
By this time, the boat, having reached the middle of the stream,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: ogress. Her cold, blue lips of a violet tinge drew back from the
yellow teeth, and she thought she smiled.
"I'm ready," said Rogron, coming in and carrying off the colonel, who
bowed in a lover-like way to the old maid.
Gouraud determined to press on his marriage with Sylvie, and make
himself master of the house; resolving to rid himself, through his
influence over Sylvie during the honeymoon, of Bathilde and Celeste
Habert. So, during their walk, he told Rogron he had been joking the
other day; that he had no real intention of aspiring to Bathilde; that
he was not rich enough to marry a woman without fortune; and then he
confided to him his real wishes, declaring that he had long chosen
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