| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: high Tory and a high Englishman. No manufacturer could have held
opinions more hostile to the working man and his strikes. 'The
workmen,' he said, 'think nothing of their country. They think of
nothing but themselves. They're damned greedy, selfish fellows.' He
would not hear of the decadence of England. 'They say they send us
beef from America,' he argued; 'but who pays for it? All the money
in the world's in England.' The Royal Navy was the best of possible
services, according to him. 'Anyway the officers are gentlemen,'
said he; 'and you can't get hazed to death by a damned non-
commissioned - as you can in the army.' Among nations, England was
the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Although realizing that my Life, at least the part of it pertaining
to sentament, was over, I knew that, single or married, I must find
him. I could not bare to think that I, in my desire to help, had
ruined Miss Everett's couzin's play. Luckaly I got a taxi at the
corner, and I ordered it to drive to the mill. I sank back, bathed
in hot persparation, and on consulting my bracelet watch found I
had but twenty five minutes until the curtain went up.
I must find him, but where and how! I confess for a moment that I
doubted my own father, who can be very feirce on ocasion. What if,
madened by his mistake about Beresford, he had, on being aproached
by Adrian, been driven to violance? What if, in my endeaver to help
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: of armours, castles, and great deeds. Oh, no! They stood on the
naked soil, had traditions to be faithful to, had their feet on
this earth of passions and death which is not a hothouse. They
would have been too plebeian for you since they had to lead, to
suffer with, to understand the commonest humanity. No, you are
merely of the topmost layer, disdainful and superior, the mere pure
froth and bubble on the inscrutable depths which some day will toss
you out of existence. But you are you! You are you! You are the
eternal love itself - only, O Divinity, it isn't your body, it is
your soul that is made of foam."
She listened as if in a dream. He had succeeded so well in his
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