| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: shamefaced ones," "you draw in your head like a tern," "you make
your voice small like a whistle-pipe," "you beg like one
delirious"; and the verb PONGITAI, "to look cross," is equipped
with the pregnant rider, "as at the sight of beggars."
This insolence of beggars and the weakness of proprietors can only
be illustrated by examples. We have a girl in our service to whom
we had given some finery, that she might wait at table, and (at her
own request) some warm clothing against the cold mornings of the
bush. She went on a visit to her family, and returned in an old
tablecloth, her whole wardrobe having been divided out among
relatives in the course of twenty-four hours. A pastor in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: Which of them should you think me likely to have taken a fancy to?
On general grounds, now, from what you know of me?" He proposed this problem
with an animated eye.
"You forget," his friend said, "that though I know, thank heaven,
a good deal of you, I know very little of either of those girls.
I have had too little evidence."
"Yes, but you are a man who notices. That 's why I wanted you to come.
"
"I spoke only to Miss Evers."
"Yes, I know you have never spoken to Miss Vivian." Gordon Wright
stood looking at Bernard and urging his point as he pronounced
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: see your Marquise the day after to-morrow; she may get round him if
she can. I doubt it. If all the truffles, all the Duchesses, all the
mistresses, and all the charmers in Paris were there in the full bloom
of their beauty; if the King promised him the PRAIRIE, and the
Almighty gave him the Order of Paradise with the revenues of
Purgatory, not one of all these powers would induce him to transfer a
single straw from one saucer of his scales into the other. He is a
judge, as Death is Death."
The two friends had reached the office of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, at the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines.
"Here you are at home," said Bianchon, laughing, as he pointed to the
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