| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: a creeper on the end wall, a roof of shingle, and
some roses climbing on the rickety trellis-work of
the tiny porch. Kennedy pulled up to a walk. A
woman, in full sunlight, was throwing a dripping
blanket over a line stretched between two old ap-
ple-trees. And as the bobtailed, long-necked chest-
nut, trying to get his head, jerked the left hand,
covered by a thick dogskin glove, the doctor raised
his voice over the hedge: "How's your child,
Amy?"
I had the time to see her dull face, red, not with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: that the pair became anxious, and went towards him. He was asleep,
and breathing quick and heavily.
"He will take a fever," said Brimblecombe, "if he sleeps much
longer with his head down in the sunshine."
"We must wake him gently if we wake him at all." And Cary moved
forward to him.
As he did so, Amyas lifted his head, and turning it to right and
left, felt round him with his sightless eyes.
"You have been asleep, Amyas."
"Have I? I have not slept back my eyes, then. Take up this great
useless carcase of mine, and lead me home. I shall buy me a dog
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: her blush a little. To take refuge from blushing she asked
him if, after his long walk, he was not hungry or thirsty.
Her hand was in her pocket; she was fumbling with the little
key that her sister had given her. "Ah, my dear young lady,"
he said, clasping his hands a little, "if you could give me,
in charity, a glass of wine!"
Gertrude gave a smile and a little nod, and went quickly out of the room.
Presently she came back with a very large decanter in one hand
and a plate in the other, on which was placed a big, round cake
with a frosted top. Gertrude, in taking the cake from the closet,
had had a moment of acute consciousness that it composed the refection
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