| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: feel for me," she said, feeling tears of self-pity coming into
her eyes.
She heard Vronsky's abrupt ring and hurriedly dried her tears not
only dried her tears, but sat down by a lamp and opened a book,
affecting composure. She wanted to show him that she was
displeased that he had not come home as he had promised--
displeased only,and not on any account to let him see her
distress, and least of all, her self-pity. She might pity
herself, but he must not pity her. She did not want strife, she
blamed him for wanting to quarrel, but unconsciously put herself
into an attitude of antagonism.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the
wood and masonry.
I then knelt down beside the fearsome-looking thing, and
raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me. The looks
of surprise which my actions elicited from the Martians were
ludicrous; they could not understand, except in a feeble and
childish way, such attributes as gratitude and compassion.
The warrior whose gun I had struck up looked enquiringly at
Tars Tarkas, but the latter signed that I be left to my own
devices, and so we returned to the plaza with my great beast
following close at heel, and Sola grasping me tightly by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Everything was speedily settled. M. Derues and his wife, a lady
belonging to the distinguished family of Nicolai, visited
Buisson-Souef. They were enchanted with what they saw, and their
hosts were hardly less enchanted with their visitors. By the end
of December, 1775, the purchase was concluded. M. Derues was to
give 130,000 livres (about L20,000) for the estate, the
payments to be made by instalments, the first of 12,000 livres to
be paid on the actual signing of the contract of sale, which, it
was agreed, was to be concluded not later than the first of June,
1776. In the meantime, as an earnest of good faith, M. Derues
gave Mme. de Lamotte a bill for 4,200 livres to fall due on April
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