| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: objects worthy of observation. Thus they moved on till Lord
Woodville had attained his purpose of drawing his guest entirely
apart from the rest of the company, when, turning round upon him
with an air of great solemnity, he addressed him thus:--
"Richard Browne, my old and very dear friend, we are now alone.
Let me conjure you to answer me upon the word of a friend, and
the honour of a soldier. How did you in reality rest during last
night?"
"Most wretchedly indeed, my lord," answered the General, in the
same tone of solemnity--"so miserably, that I would not run the
risk of such a second night, not only for all the lands
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopeton
in the spring. Her cousin lives there and Mrs. Spencer has
visited here and knows all about it. So Matthew and I have
talked it over off and on ever since. We thought we'd get a
boy. Matthew is getting up in years, you know--he's sixty--
and he isn't so spry as he once was. His heart troubles him
a good deal. And you know how desperate hard it's got to be
to get hired help. There's never anybody to be had but
those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as
you do get one broke into your ways and taught something
he's up and off to the lobster canneries or the States. At
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: and death. Now, when he had at last struggled
out of debt, he was going to die himself. He
was only forty-six, and had, of course, counted
upon more time.
Bergson had spent his first five years on the
Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting
out. He had paid off his mortgages and had
ended pretty much where he began, with the
land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty
acres of what stretched outside his door; his own
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