| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: You shirk a straightforward and decent return for what you get
from us--taking refuge in purity and delicacy and such-like when
it comes to payment."
"Mr. Ramage," said Ann Veronica, "I want to go--NOW!"
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But she did not get away just then.
Ramage's bitterness passed as abruptly as his aggression. "Oh,
Ann Veronica!" he cried, "I cannot let you go like this! You
don't understand. You can't possibly understand!"
He began a confused explanation, a perplexing contradictory
apology for his urgency and wrath. He loved Ann Veronica, he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: the cook more crazy than Gambara.
This serious and pious way of speaking of art interested the Milanese
extremely. Seated between these two distracted brains, one so noble
and the other so common, and making game of each other to the great
entertainment of the crowd, there was a moment when the Count found
himself wavering between the sublime and its parody, the farcical
extremes of human life. Ignoring the chain of incredible events which
had brought them to this smoky den, he believed himself to be the
plaything of some strange hallucination, and thought of Gambara and
Giardini as two abstractions.
Meanwhile, after a last piece of buffoonery from the deaf conductor in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: up. I told him you'd known about the letters all along; for a
long time, at least; and I saw it hurt him horribly. It was just
what I meant to do, of course; but I can't leave him to that false
impression; I must write him."
She received this without outward movement, but he saw that the
depths were stirred. At length she returned, in a hesitating
tone, "Why do you call it a false impression? I did know."
"Yes, but I implied you didn't care."
"Ah!"
He still stood looking down on her. "Don't you want me to set
that right?" he tentatively pursued.
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