| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Ye havena told me yet," she said, "who was it spoke?"
"Your aunt for one," said Archie.
"Auntie Kirstie?" she cried. "And what do I care for my Auntie
Kirstie?"
"She cares a great deal for her niece," replied Archie, in kind reproof.
"Troth, and it's the first I've heard of it," retorted the girl.
"The question here is not who it is, but what they say, what they have
noticed," pursued the lucid schoolmaster. "That is what we have to
think of in self-defence."
"Auntie Kirstie, indeed! A bitter, thrawn auld maid that's fomented
trouble in the country before I was born, and will be doing it still, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "Well," said the Baroness, "I never guess my own lovers;
so I can't guess other people's."
Acton gave a loud laugh, and he was about to add a rejoinder when
Mr. Wentworth approached his niece. "You will be interested to hear,"
the old man said, with a momentary aspiration toward jocosity,
"of another matrimonial venture in our little circle."
"I was just telling the Baroness," Acton observed.
"Mr. Acton was apparently about to announce his own engagement," said Eugenia.
Mr. Wentworth's jocosity increased. "It is not exactly that;
but it is in the family. Clifford, hearing this morning
that Mr. Brand had expressed a desire to tie the nuptial
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings;
And how should aught but evil things,
Or any good but death, befall
Him that is thrall unto Time's thrall,
Slave to the lesser of these Kings?
O heart of youth that wakes and sings!
O golden vows and golden rings!
Life mocks you with the tale of all
Time steals from Love!
O riven lute and writhen strings,
Dead bough whereto no blossom clings,
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