| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: her that it was only until he could take the lady to an asylum. One
look at the wall paper, a glance out of the window, and Muller knew
that this was where Asta Langen had been imprisoned. He sat down
on a chair and looked at the woman, who stood frightened before him.
"Do you know where they have taken the lady?"
"No, sir.
"Do you know the gentleman's name?"
"No, sir.
"You did not send the lady's name to the authorities?" *
"No, sir.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: unthrifty sand hills, to-day pegged down by houses.
From an English point of view there has not been the least
attempt at grading those hills, and indeed you might as well try
to grade the hillocks of Sind. The cable cars have for all
practical purposes made San Francisco a dead level. They take no
count of rise or fall, but slide equably on their appointed
courses from one end to the other of a six-mile street. They
turn corners almost at right angles, cross other lines, and for
aught I know may run up the sides of houses. There is no visible
agency of their flight, but once in awhile you shall pass a
five-storied building humming with machinery that winds up an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: neglected. All the land was let to the peasants. They did not pay
anything. There were more than eighty thousand roubles debts. I
changed it all in one year, and have got 70 per cent. more out of
it. What do you think of that?" he asked proudly.
Nekhludoff remembered having heard that this Schonbock, just
because, he had spent all he had, had attained by some special
influence the post of guardian to a rich old man who was
squandering his property--and was now evidently living by this
guardianship.
"How am I to get rid of him without offending him?" thought
Nekhludoff, looking at this full, shiny face with the stiffened
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