| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: contrast with the first cold signals of the dawn
without.
When skimming was done--which, as the milk diminished
with the approach of autumn, was a lessening process
day by day--Retty and the rest went out. The lovers
followed them.
"Our tremulous lives are so different from theirs, are
they not?" he musingly observed to her, as he regarded
the three figures tripping before him through the
frigid pallor of opening day.
"Not so very different, I think," she said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: turned back. "What if I should pity him too much?" she asked.
Mrs. Westgate hereupon turned away, but after a moment's
reflection she also faced her sister again. "It would come,
after all, to the same thing," she said.
Lord Lambeth came the next day with his trap, and the two ladies,
attended by Willie Woodley, placed themselves under his guidance,
and were conveyed eastward, through some of the duskier portions
of the metropolis, to the great turreted donjon which overlooks
the London shipping. They all descended from their vehicle and
entered the famous inclosure; and they secured the services of a
venerable beefeater, who, though there were many other claimants for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: hundred men of the Cardigan regiment started from Aldershot.
A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey
road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine
woods to the northwest. It had a greenish colour, and caused
a silent brightness like summer lightning. This was the second
cylinder.
CHAPTER NINE
THE FIGHTING BEGINS
Saturday lives in my memory as a day of suspense. It
was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, with, I am told, a
rapidly fluctuating barometer. I had slept but little, though
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