| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: friend and kinsman o' the house, an' as ye'll hear eneugh o't in
less than an hour, I may as weel tell ye mysell. Ye sall be
pleased then to know, that when our Laird was up in England where
he gangs oftener than his friends can wish, he was biding at the
house o' this Sir Miles Musgrave, an' there was putten on the
table six candlesticks, that they tell me were twice as muckle as
the candlesticks in Dunblane kirk, and neither airn, brass, nor
tin, but a' solid silver, nae less;--up wi' their English pride,
has sae muckle, and kens sae little how to guide it! Sae they
began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain
poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: maid-servant in a bright turban, replying to the summons,
informed her mistress that she had seen "Miss
Ellen" going down the path to the shore; and Mrs.
Mingott turned to Archer.
"Run down and fetch her, like a good grandson; this
pretty lady will describe the party to me," she said; and
Archer stood up as if in a dream.
He had heard the Countess Olenska's name pronounced
often enough during the year and a half since
they had last met, and was even familiar with the main
incidents of her life in the interval. He knew that she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: at some moment, been to school to a clever woman--probably a little
older than himself. And you must be thankful when you get your
instructions gratis. With me you would get it gratis."
The next day Clifford told Lizzie Acton that the Baroness thought
her the most charming girl she had ever seen.
Lizzie shook her head. "No, she does n't!" she said.
"Do you think everything she says," asked Clifford, "is to be taken
the opposite way?"
"I think that is!" said Lizzie.
Clifford was going to remark that in this case the Baroness must
desire greatly to bring about a marriage between Mr. Clifford
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