| 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: was the matter.
"Oh, nothing, dear," he said from within. "I am so
sorry I disturbed you! But the reason is rather an
amusing one: I fell asleep and dreamt that I was
fighting that fellow again who insulted you and the
noise you heard was my pummelling away with my fists at
my portmanteau, which I pulled out today for packing.
I am occasionally liable to these freaks in my sleep.
Go to bed and think of it no more."
This was the last drachm required to turn the scale of
her indecision. Declare the past to him by word of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "One could call it a kiss, though it was only on the end of the
nose." She laughed at the recollection. "But I paid him back for
that myself. I boxed his face for him. And he did hurt my arm.
It's black and blue. Look at it."
She pulled up the loose sleeve of her blouse, and he saw the
bruised imprints of two fingers.
Just then a gang of blacks came out from among the trees carrying
the wounded man on a rough stretcher.
"Romantic, isn't it?" Sheldon sneered, following Joan's startled
gaze. "And now I'll have to play surgeon and doctor him up.
Funny, this twentieth-century duelling. First you drill a hole in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: "I don't understand you. I try to, but I cannot; or, if I guess,
I cannot tell whether you are in earnest or not."
"I am very much in earnest. Abandon at once and for ever all
misgivings that I am trifling with you, or passing an idle hour
as men do when they find themselves in the company of beautiful
women. I mean what I say literally, and in the deepest sense. You
doubt me; we have brought society to such a state that we all
suspect one another. But whatever is true will command belief
sooner or later from those who have wit enough to comprehend
truth. Now let me recall Miss Lindsay to consciousness by
remarking that we have been out for ten minutes, and that our
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