| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: of a special character. The inspector read the permit with
attention. Then, having attentively examined the person
whose description it contained:
"You are from Riga?" he said.
"Yes," replied the young girl.
"You are going to Irkutsk?"
"Yes."
"By what route?"
"By Perm."
"Good!" replied the inspector. "Take care to have
your permit vised, at the police station of Nijni-Novgorod."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: rebellion against the oppressor. Looking at him still more
fixedly than I had yet done, I saw written in his eye and mien a
resolution to arrogate to himself a freedom so unlimited that it
might often trench on the just liberty of his neighbours. I
rapidly ran over these thoughts, and then I laughed a low and
involuntary laugh, moved thereto by a slight inward revelation of
the inconsistency of man. It was as I thought: Hunsden had
expected me to take with calm his incorrect and offensive
surmises, his bitter and haughty taunts; and himself was chafed
by a laugh, scarce louder than a whisper.
His brow darkened, his thin nostril dilated a little.
The Professor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Veronese had depicted the marriage-feast of Cana.
Wearied as he was he found the picture entertaining;
it had an illusion for him; it satisfied his conception,
which was ambitious, of what a splendid banquet should be.
In the left-hand corner of the picture is a young woman
with yellow tresses confined in a golden head-dress;
she is bending forward and listening, with the smile
of a charming woman at a dinner-party, to her neighbor.
Newman detected her in the crowd, admired her, and perceived
that she too had her votive copyist--a young man with his hair
standing on end. Suddenly he became conscious of the germ
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