| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: to talk to them about the general state of affairs. I saw Radek
grin atthis forecast of his speech. I understood why, when he
began to speak. He led off by a direct and furious onslaught
on the railway workers in general, demanding work, work
and more work, telling them that as the Red Army had been
the vanguard of the revolution hitherto, and had starved and
fought and given lives to save those at home from Denikin
and Kolchak, so now it was the turn of the railway workers
on whose efforts not only the Red Army but also the whole
future of Russia depended. He addressed himself to the
women, telling them in very bad Russian that unless their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: statement) the manners of America. It is this same opposition that
has most struck me in people of almost all classes and from east to
west. By the time a man had about strung me up to be the death of
him by his insulting behaviour, he himself would be just upon the
point of melting into confidence and serviceable attentions. Yet I
suspect, although I have met with the like in so many parts, that
this must be the character of some particular state or group of
states, for in America, and this again in all classes, you will find
some of the softest-mannered gentlemen in the world.
I was so wet when I got back to Mitchell's toward the evening, that I
had simply to divest myself of my shoes, socks, and trousers, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: devotedly as I do: my torment is your sport; you scruple not to
stretch my soul on the rack of jealousy; for, deny it as you
will, I am certain you have cast encouraging glances on that
school-boy, Crimsworth; he has presumed to fall in love, which he
dared not have done unless you had given him room to hope."
"What do you say, Francois? Do you say Crimsworth is in love
with me?"
"Over head and ears."
"Has he told you so?"
"No--but I see it in his face: he blushes whenever your name is
mentioned." A little laugh of exulting coquetry announced Mdlle.
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