| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: while they have made good roads. When I was with Mr. Casaubon I
saw that he deafened himself in that direction: it was almost
against his will that he read a Latin treatise written by a German.
I was very sorry."
Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate
that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode
in which Dorothea would be wounded. Young Mr. Ladislaw was not at
all deep himself in German writers; but very little achievement
is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
Poor Dorothea felt a pang at the thought that the labor of her
husband's life might be void, which left her no energy to spare
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: to do that she seems so like myself, or I like her in what I have to
do?"
"Why," I answered, "she too stays in the hive and suffers not the
other bees to idle. Those whose duty it is to work outside she sends
forth to their labours; and all that each of them brings in, she notes
and receives and stores against the day of need; but when the season
for use has come, she distributes a just share to each. Again, it is
she who presides over the fabric of choicely-woven cells within. She
looks to it that warp and woof are wrought with speed and beauty.
Under her guardian eye the brood of young[31] is nursed and reared;
but when the days of rearing are past and the young bees are ripe for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: "In the street."
The two magistrates looked at each other. Juana made a noble gesture
and motioned to the doctor.
"Monsieur," she said in his ear, "can I be suspected of some infamous
action? I! The pile of stones must be close to the wall of my garden.
Go yourself, I implore you. Look, search, find that money."
The doctor went out, taking with him the examining judge, and together
they found Montefiore's treasure.
Within two days Juana had sold her cross to pay the costs of a
journey. On her way with her two children to take the diligence which
would carry her to the frontiers of Spain, she heard herself being
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