| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the others coming up to kill me before Mr. Schmidt could get help,
I shed a few tears.
They all came back as soon as my Father had slamed the house door,
and if they had been feirce before they were awfull then, the cook
with a handkerchief to her mouth, and Henry's friend getting out a
watch and giving me five minutes. He had counted three minutes and
was holding his Revolver to just behind my ear, when I heard the
milk waggon coming back, with the horse galloping.
It stopped in the alley, and the cook said, in a dreadfull voice:
"What's that?"
She dashed to the Window, and looked out, and then turned to the
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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: peasant, and who spoke Russian remarkably well. This strong,
over-fed man, and Nekhludoff himself, presented a striking
contrast to the peasants, with their thin, wrinkled faces and the
shoulder blades protruding beneath their coarse coats.
"Here's the Prince wanting to do you a favor, and to let the land
to you; only you are not worthy of it," said the steward.
"How are we not worthy of it, Vasili Karlovitch? Don't we work
for you? We were well satisfied with the deceased lady--God have
mercy on her soul--and the young Prince will not desert us now.
Our thanks to him," said a redhaired, talkative peasant.
"Yes, that's why I have called you together. I should like to let
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: flats, or perhaps barren sandhills without beauty of form or
amenity of aspect, covered with a shabby and scanty vegetation
conveying the impression of poverty and uselessness. Sometimes
such an ugliness is merely a repulsive mask. A river whose estuary
resembles a breach in a sand rampart may flow through a most
fertile country. But all the estuaries of great rivers have their
fascination, the attractiveness of an open portal. Water is
friendly to man. The ocean, a part of Nature furthest removed in
the unchangeableness and majesty of its might from the spirit of
mankind, has ever been a friend to the enterprising nations of the
earth. And of all the elements this is the one to which men have
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