| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "Yes, master. Only" - he wriggled slightly and put one bare foot
on the other for a moment in apologetic embarrassment - "only I - I
- don't like to say it."
Renouard looked at him without anger, without any sort of
expression. "Frightened of the dead? Eh? Well - all right. I
will say it myself - I suppose once for all. . . Immediately he
raised his voice very much.
"Send the boys down to bring up the luggage."
"Yes, master."
Renouard turned to his distinguished guests who, like a personally
conducted party of tourists, had stopped and were looking about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: common pin of North America. Now, Hope?" as the door closed.
"I think it better, auntie," said Hope, "that Philip should not
stay here longer at present. You can truly say that the house
is full, and--"
"I have just had a note from him," said Aunt Jane severely. "He
has gone to lodge at the hotel. What next?"
"Aunt Jane," said Hope, looking her full in the face, "I have
not the slightest idea what to do next."
("The next thing for me," thought her aunt, "is to have a
little plain speech with that misguided child upstairs.")
"I can see no way out," pursued Hope.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: beetroots. I recognized among the company two or three artillery
captains of the regiment in which I had first served. I was welcomed
with a shout of acclamation, which would have amazed me greatly on the
other side of the Beresina; but at this moment the cold was less
intense; my fellow-officers were resting, they were warm, they had
food, and the room, strewn with trusses of straw, gave the promise of
a delightful night. We did not ask for so much in those days. My
comrades could be philanthropists /gratis/--one of the commonest ways
of being philanthropic. I sat down to eat on one of the bundles of
straw.
"At the end of the table, by the side of the door opening into the
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