| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: "If you do I shall get out of it just as I got out of the
half-crowns, and Miss Wilson will begin to think that you are
mad."
"Then I really did not give you the seven and sixpence," she
said, relieved.
"What is your own opinion?" he answered, taking three pennies
from his pocket, jingling them in his palm. "What is your name?"
"I shall not tell you," said Agatha with dignity.
He shrugged his shoulders. "Perhaps you are right," he said. "I
would not tell you mine if you asked me."
"I have not the slightest intention of asking you."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: suffering flowed. This was quite evident.
"Can it be, then, that all this is done simply through
misapprehension? Could it not be managed that all these officials
should have their salaries secured to them, and a premium paid
them, besides, so that they should leave off, doing all that they
were doing now?" Nekhludoff thought, and in spite of the fleas,
that seemed to spring up round him like water from a fountain
whenever he moved, he fell fast asleep.
CHAPTER XX.
THE JOURNEY RESUMED.
The carters had left the inn long before Nekhludoff awoke. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: and her daughters."
"Should I? I am glad I was not a week later then."
The Admiral abused him for his want of gallantry. He defended himself;
though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies
on board a ship of his, excepting for a ball, or a visit,
which a few hours might comprehend.
"But, if I know myself," said he, "this is from no want of gallantry
towards them. It is rather from feeling how impossible it is,
with all one's efforts, and all one's sacrifices, to make
the accommodations on board such as women ought to have.
There can be no want of gallantry, Admiral, in rating the claims of women
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