| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: but suspect that Eagle County was less rich in
architecture than he averred, and that the duration of
his stay (which he had fixed at a month) was not
unconnected with the look in his eyes when he had first
paused before her in the library. Everything that had
followed seemed to have grown out of that look: his way
of speaking to her, his quickness in catching her
meaning, his evident eagerness to prolong their
excursions and to seize on every chance of being with
her.
The signs of his liking were manifest enough; but it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: service in your daidling here, for the young woman is from home, and
it's my fear that the old woman is no suitable companion for your
father's son. Forbye that I have nobody but myself to look after my
reputation, and have been long enough alone with a sedooctive youth.
And come back another day for your saxpence!" she cried after me as I
left.
My skirmish with this disconcerting lady gave my thoughts a boldness
they had otherwise wanted. For two days the image of Catriona had
mixed in all my meditations; she made their background, so that I
scarce enjoyed my own company without a glint of her in a corner of my
mind. But now she came immediately near; I seemed to touch her, whom I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: They repaired to the hall and took their seats at the head of the long
table. For the Spanish centuries of stately custom lived at Santa YsabeI
del Mar, inviolate, feudal, remote.
They were the only persons of quality present; and between themselves and
the gente de razon a space intervened. Behind the Padre's chair stood an
Indian to waft upon him, and another stood behind the chair of Gaston
Villere. Each of these servants wore one single white garment, and
offered the many dishes to the gente fina and refilled their glasses. At
the lower end of the table a general attendant wafted upon mesclados--the
half-breeds. There was meat with spices, and roasted quail, with various
cakes and other preparations of grain; also the brown fresh olives and
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