| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: his usual meal hour.
"Run down to the caf on the first floor and tell the head waiter
to give you a square meal and charge it to me," Kent directed.
"Order something substantial; you must be used up."
The man hung back. "Thank you, Mr. Kent, but I don't like to
leave here until my relief comes," he objected.
"That's all right, I'll stay in the apartment until you return,"
and Kent settled the question by opening the door leading into the
outer corridor. "Ferguson will be around shortly, so hurry."
Kent watched the man scurry toward the elevator shaft, then returned
to Rochester's apartment and once more took up the telephone. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: feelings--just really and truly for the fun of it and the satisfaction
of it, beat away. I dont grudge you that.
TARLETON. _[almost in hysterics]_ I used to think that this sort of
thing went on in other families but that it never could happen in
ours. And now-- _[He is broken with emotion, and continues
lamentably]_ I cant say the right thing. I cant do the right thing.
I dont know what is the right thing. I'm beaten; and she knows it.
Summerhays: tell me what to do.
LORD SUMMERHAYS. When my council in Jinghiskahn reached the point of
coming to blows, I used to adjourn the sitting. Let us postpone the
discussion. Wait until Monday: we shall have Sunday to quiet down
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: that, nevertheless, when he did turn about she could see him time
himself--she was freshly taken up--and cross straight to her postal
subordinate, whom some one else had released. He had in his hand
all this while neither letters nor telegrams, and now that he was
close to her--for she was close to the counter-clerk--it brought
her heart into her mouth merely to see him look at her neighbour
and open his lips. She was too nervous to bear it. He asked for a
Post-Office Guide, and the young man whipped out a new one;
whereupon he said he wished not to purchase, but only to consult
one a moment; with which, the copy kept on loan being produced, he
once more wandered off.
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