| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: charming idea."
"So Miss Anvoy thinks."
"Has she a candidate for the Fund?"
"Not that I know of--and she's perfectly reasonable about it. But
Lady Coxon has put the matter before her, and we've naturally had a
lot of talk."
"Talk that, as you've so interestingly intimated, has landed you in
a disagreement."
"She considers there's something in it," Gravener said.
"And you consider there's nothing?"
"It seems to me a piece of solemn twaddle--which can't fail to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim;
But true-sweet beauty liv'd and died with him.
'Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear! 1081
Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you:
Having no fair to lose, you need not fear;
The sun doth scorn you, and the wind doth hiss you:
But when Adonis liv'd, sun and sharp air 1085
Lurk'd like two thieves, to rob him of his fair:
'And therefore would he put his bonnet on,
Under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep; 1088
The wind would blow it off, and, being gone,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: spiritual mechanism, and taught him that, the old man being
infinitely conscientious, the special operation of conscience
within him announced itself by several of the indications
of physical faintness.
The Baroness took her uncle's hand, and stood looking
at him with her ugly face and her beautiful smile.
"Have I done right to come?" she asked.
"Very right, very right," said Mr. Wentworth, solemnly. He had
arranged in his mind a little speech; but now it quite faded away.
He felt almost frightened. He had never been looked at in just
that way--with just that fixed, intense smile--by any woman;
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