| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: give you a new view of the English and Scots seamen (a much-
caricatured folk) who had the last say in the formation of my
character. One is nothing if not modest, but in this disaster I
think I have done some honour to their simple teaching. "Won't
you sit down?" Very fair; very fair indeed. She sat down. Her
amused glance strayed all over the room. There were pages of MS.
on the table and under the table, a batch of typed copy on a
chair, single leaves had fluttered away into distant corners;
there were there living pages, pages scored and wounded, dead
pages that would be burnt at the end of the day--the litter of a
cruel battlefield, of a long, long and desperate fray. Long! I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: left Moscow?"
"No, I did not know."
"Must I think, Michael, that the wish alone to place me
in my father's hands draws you toward Irkutsk?"
"No, Nadia," replied Michael, gravely. "I should de-
ceive you if I allowed you to believe that it was so. I go
where duty orders me to go. As to taking you to Irkutsk,
is it not you, Nadia, who are now taking me there? Do I
not see with your eyes; and is it not your hand that guides
me? Have you not repaid a hundred-fold the help which
I was able to give you at first? I do not know if fate will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: MISTRESS BANISTER.
What thou hast said springs from an envious heart.
A Cannibal that doth eat men alive!
But here upon my knee, believe me, sir,
And what I speak, so help me God, is true:
We scarce have meat to feed our little babes.
Most of our Plate is in that Broker's hand,
Which, had we money to defray our debt,
O think,. we would not bide that penury.
Be merciful, kind master Friskiball.
My husband, children, and my self will eat
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