| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: merriment, and his voice under inadequate control.
'I beg your pardon,' said he, 'but what is the meaning of
your extraordinary bill?'
'I beg yours,' returned Somerset hotly. 'Its meaning is
sufficiently explicit.' And being now, from dire experience,
fearful of ridicule, he was preparing to close the door, when
the gentleman thrust his cane into the aperture.
'Not so fast, I beg of you,' said he. 'If you really let
apartments, here is a possible tenant at your door; and
nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see the
accommodation and to learn your terms.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: And every spoken tongue should lord you. Sir,
Your falsehood and yourself are hateful to us:
I trample on your offers and on you:
Begone: we will not look upon you more.
Here, push them out at gates.'
In wrath she spake.
Then those eight mighty daughters of the plough
Bent their broad faces toward us and addressed
Their motion: twice I sought to plead my cause,
But on my shoulder hung their heavy hands,
The weight of destiny: so from her face
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: for them.
Would you be paid twice?"
"No," cried the man, with deepening dismay, "I dare not claim
that.
I acknowledge that I considered my own interest too much. But
surely
not altogether. You have said that these things were not
foolishly done.
They accomplished some good in the world. Does not that count
for something?"
"Yes," answered he Keeper of the Gate, "it counts in the
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