| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "All the better. It's an animal I detest."
"You prefer a bluestocking."
"Is that what you call Miss Alden?"
"Her sister tells me," said Percy Beaumont, "that she
is tremendously literary."
"I don't know anything about that. She is certainly very clever."
"Well," said Beaumont, "I should have supposed you would have found
that sort of thing awfully slow."
"In point of fact," Lord Lambeth rejoined, "I find it uncommonly lively."
After this, Percy Beaumont held his tongue; but on
the 10th of August he wrote to the Duchess of Bayswater.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: begin to be afraid I may prove jealous.' And he wrung the
hand of his landlord.
Somerset was, of all men, least fit to deal with such a
greeting. To reject these kind advances was beyond his
strength. That he could not return cordiality for
cordiality, was already almost more than he could carry.
That inequality between kind sentiments which, to generous
characters, will always seem to be a sort of guilt, oppressed
him to the ground; and he stammered vague and lying words.
'That is all right,' cried Zero - 'that is as it should be -
say no more! I had a vague alarm; I feared you had deserted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: now. His soul has been purged in these terrible days; have you
the right to endanger his life needlessly?"
"Oh, I do not know! I do not know what to do."
"I have no choice," said Muller firmly. "It is my duty to make
known the fact to the Police Commissioner that there is such a
letter in existence. The Police Commissioner will then have to
follow his duty in demanding the letter from you. Mr. Pernburg,
Sider's friend, saw this argument at once. Although he also had
a letter from the dead man, asking him to send the enclosure to
you, registered, on a certain date, he knew that it was his duty
to give all the papers to the authorities. Would it not be better
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