| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: to inspect the happiness which she was almost ashamed
of having authorised; and even the Dashwoods were at
the expense of a journey from Sussex to do them honour.
"I will not say that I am disappointed, my dear sister,"
said John, as they were walking together one morning before
the gates of Delaford House, "THAT would be saying too much,
for certainly you have been one of the most fortunate young
women in the world, as it is. But, I confess, it would
give me great pleasure to call Colonel Brandon brother.
His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in
such respectable and excellent condition!--and his woods!--I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: "Are you getting on all right, sir?"
"Yes," said Magnus after a while, "yes, all right. I am going
away. I've come to say good-bye. No--" He interrupted himself
with a deprecatory smile, "YOU said THAT, didn't you?"
"Well, you are going away, too, your wife tells me."
"Yes, I'm going away. I can't stay on..." he hesitated a long
time, groping for the right word, "I can't stay on--on--what's
the name of this place?"
"Los Muertos," put in Presley.
"No, it isn't. Yes, it is, too, that's right, Los Muertos. I
don't know where my memory has gone to of late."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: and recked nothing of the devil and his suggestions), then was
the adversary ashamed of having fallen in the first assault. So
he came by another road (for many are his paths of wickedness),
and endeavoured to overthrow and terrify Ioasaph by means of
divers apparitions. Sometimes he appeared to him in black, and
such indeed he is: sometimes with a drawn sword he leapt upon
him, and threatened to strike, unless he speedily turned back.
At other times he assumed the shapes of all manner of beasts,
roaring and making a terrible din and bellowing; or again he
became a dragon, adder, or basilisk. But that fair and right
noble athlete kept his soul in quietness, for he had made the
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