| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: reflected?"
"I felt that as I had committed no crime, Heaven could not
punish me."
"What is a prison, then," inquired Aramis, "if it be not a
punishment?"
"Alas! I cannot tell, said the young man; "all that I can
tell you now is the very opposite of what I felt seven years
ago."
"To hear you converse, to witness your resignation, one
might almost believe that you liked your imprisonment?"
"I endure it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: carried the sack and York Neil held the guns."
The man cursed quietly, and relapsed into silence.
"Always buy your clothes in pairs?"
The sheriff's voice showed only a pleasant interest, but the
outlaw's frightened eyes were puzzled at this sudden turn.
"Wearing a bandanna same color and pattern as you did the night
of our jamboree on the Limited, I see. That's mightily careless
of you, ain't it?"
Instinctively a shaking hand clutched at the kerchief. "It don't
cut any ice because a hold-up wears a mask made out of stuff like
this "
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: Emma had never been to Box Hill; she wished to see what every body
found so well worth seeing, and she and Mr. Weston had agreed
to chuse some fine morning and drive thither. Two or three more
of the chosen only were to be admitted to join them, and it was to
be done in a quiet, unpretending, elegant way, infinitely superior
to the bustle and preparation, the regular eating and drinking,
and picnic parade of the Eltons and the Sucklings.
This was so very well understood between them, that Emma could
not but feel some surprise, and a little displeasure, on hearing
from Mr. Weston that he had been proposing to Mrs. Elton, as her
brother and sister had failed her, that the two parties should unite,
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