| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: which is to appertain to this request, as well as the degree of
intimacy subsisting between the parties?"
"By all means," cried Bingley; "let us hear all the particulars, not
forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have
more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be
aware of. I assure you, that if Darcy were not such a great tall
fellow, in comparison with myself, that I should not pay him half
so much deference. I declare I do not know a more awful object
than Darcy, on particular occasions, and in particular places; at
his own house especially, and of a Sunday evening, when he has
nothing to do."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: in disgust. I was too virtuous by half; I was too stern a moralist.
He told me, in a friendly way, that I was cursed with a conscience;
that I judged things like a Methodist and talked about them like an old lady.
This was rather bewildering. Which of my two critics was I to believe?
I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots.
But there is one thing in which no one will ever have the impudence
to pretend I am wrong, that is, in being your faithful friend,
C. N."
CHAPTER VI
Newman gave up Damascus and Bagdad and returned to Paris before
the autumn was over. He established himself in some rooms selected
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: therefore, to look out for a tender novice, with a
large fortune, at her own disposal; and accordingly
fixed my eyes upon Miss Biddy Simper. I had now
paid her six or seven visits; and so fully convinced
her of my being a gentleman and a rake, that I
made no doubt that both her person and fortune
would soon be mine.
At this critical time, Miss Gripe called upon me,
in a chariot bought with my money, and loaded
with trinkets that I had, in my days of affluence,
lavished on her. Those days were now over; and
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