| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: understanding of which mere mute gentleness might have seemed the
sufficient expression. She knew his sense of his situation had
taken still another step--of that he was quite aware; but she
conveyed that, whatever had thus happened for him, it was thrown
into the shade by what was happening for herself. This--though it
mightn't to a detached spirit have seemed much--was the major
interest, and she met it with a new directness of response,
measuring it from hour to hour with her grave hush of acceptance.
Touched as he had so often been by her before, he was, for his part
too, touched afresh; all the more that though he could be duly
aware of the principle of his own mood he couldn't be equally so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: whisky" (in an undertone)--"Fairntosh--if you call get on the
lee-side of the gudewife--for there is nae gudeman. They ca' her
Christie Steele."
I almost started at the sound. Christie Steele! Christie Steele
was my mother's body-servant, her very right hand, and, between
ourselves, something like a viceroy over her. I recollected her
perfectly; and though she had in former times been no favourite
of mine, her name now sounded in my ear like that of a friend,
and was the first word I had heard somewhat in unison with the
associations around me. I sallied from Castle Treddles,
determined to make the best of my way to Duntarkin, and my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: without my help. I could not kill her with my own hands
when I tried, and if I let them go on alone, I will have killed
her just as surely as though I had run my knife into her heart.
No," and again he shook his head. "Tarzan of the Apes is a
fool and a weak, old woman," and he turned back toward the
south.
Manu, the monkey, had seen the two Tarmangani pass two
days before. Chattering and scolding, he told Tarzan all about
it. They had gone in the direction of the village of the
Gomangani, that much had Manu seen with his own eyes, so
the ape-man swung on through the jungle in a southerly direc-
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