| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: arrived here yesterday, Death might have boasted of her strength
if she could wrest her prey from us." "Gentlemen, madame would
not have allowed you at any price to see her or to exercise your
skill. Of good physicians there was no lack, but madame would
not permit any one of them to see her or to investigate her
malady." "No?" "Truly, sirs, that she would not." Then they
recalled the case of Solomon, who was so hated by his wife that
she deceived him by feigning death. (41) They think this woman
has done the same. But if they could in any way bring about her
cure, no one could make them lie or keep them from exposing the
truth, if they discovered any trickery. So to the court they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: In fact, David received from passengers, or those who came
attracted by curiosity, a good deal of assistance; and as no one
knew how much aid had been given by others, the wonder of each
individual remained undiminished.
The proprietor of the ground, the late Sir James Naesmith,
baronet, chanced to pass this singular dwelling, which, having
been placed there without right or leave asked or given, formed
an exact parallel with Falstaff's simile of a "fair house built
on another's ground;" so that poor David might have lost his
edifice by mistaking the property where he had erected it. Of
course, the proprietor entertained no idea of exacting such a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: her confinement, the many conditions of service in the post-office,
had--with a glance at his own postal resources and alternatives--
formed, up to this stage, the subject of their talk. "Well, here
we are, and it may be right enough; but this isn't the least, you
know, where I was going."
"You were going home?"
"Yes, and I was already rather late. I was going to my supper."
"You haven't had it?"
"No indeed!"
"Then you haven't eaten--?"
He looked of a sudden so extravagantly concerned that she laughed
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