| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "Nice time she'll have with this one," Frau Rupp exclaimed. "He was
lodging with me last summer and I had to get rid of him. He never changed
his clothes once in two months, and when I spoke to him of the smell in his
room he told me he was sure it floated up from the shop. Ah, every wife
has her cross. Isn't that true, my dear?"
Frau Brechenmacher saw her husband among his colleagues at the next table.
He was drinking far too much, she knew--gesticulating wildly, the saliva
spluttering out of his mouth as he talked.
"Yes," she assented, "that's true. Girls have a lot to learn."
Wedged in between these two fat old women, the Frau had no hope of being
asked to dance. She watched the couples going round and round; she forgot
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: that no one had forced an entrance into the strong-room of his
silversmith. No marks of violence were on the locks, nor on the iron
coffers which contained the gold, silver, and jewels deposited as
securities by wealthy debtors.
"If the robber opened this box," said the king, why did he take
nothing out of it but the jewels of the Duke of Bavaria? What reason
had he for leaving that pearl necklace which lay beside them? A queer
robber!"
At that remark the unhappy miser turned pale: he and the king looked
at each other for a moment.
"Then, sire, what did that robber whom you have taken under your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: did not surprise him.
"And when you come back," he added, "I'll be ready to go about the banns.
You'll come with me?"
Sue agreed, and went off under cloak and umbrella letting Jude kiss
her freely, and returning his kisses in a way she had never done before.
Times had decidedly changed. "The little bird is caught at last!" she said,
a sadness showing in her smile.
"No--only nested," he assured her.
She walked along the muddy street till she reached the public
house mentioned by Arabella, which was not so very far off.
She was informed that Arabella had not yet left, and in doubt
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