| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: was answered by the appearance of one, before whom all her
doubts were wont to be laid. Her eyes brightened at the
sight of Edmund.
"Can I speak with you, Fanny, for a few minutes?"
said he.
"Yes, certainly."
"I want to consult. I want your opinion."
"My opinion!" she cried, shrinking from such a compliment,
highly as it gratified her.
"Yes, your advice and opinion. I do not know what to do.
This acting scheme gets worse and worse, you see.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: to laugh.
"Now," added Travis, "we don't need to have the burden and trouble
of keeping up the pretences any more. We understand each other,
don't we?"
"This is queer enough," said Condy drolly.
"But isn't it an improvement?"
Condy scoured his head.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Trew Lordis," in which he showed himself as great a master of
Scottish, as he was of Latin prose. His satire of the "Chameleon,"
though its publication was stopped by Maitland, must have been read
in manuscript by many of those same "True Lords;" and though there
were nobler instincts in Maitland than any Buchanan gave him credit
for, the satire breathed an honest indignation against that wily
turncoat's misgoings, which could not but recommend the author to
all honest men. Therefore it was, I presume, and not because he was
a rogue, and a hired literary spadassin, that to the best heads in
Scotland he seemed so useful, it may be so worthy, a man, that he be
provided with continually increasing employment. As tutor to James
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