| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: forgot the resentful feeling expressed in the meeting a few days
before, and, awed by her majestic bearing and surroundings, we
involuntarily gave the three courtesies required from those
entering the imperial presence. We could not but feel that this
stately woman who sat upon the throne was every inch an empress.
In her hands rested the weal or woe of one-third of the human
race. Her brilliant black eyes seemed to read our thoughts.
Indeed she prides herself upon the fact that at a glance she can
read the character of every one that appears before her."
After the ladies had taken their position in order of their rank,
the doyen presented their good wishes to Her Majesty, which was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: been pricked by the stern facts of the Solomons. Following the
death of Hughie, he had resolved to muddle along somehow with the
plantation; but this resolve had not been based upon desire.
Instead, it was based upon the inherent stubbornness of his nature
and his dislike to give over an attempted task.
But now it was different. Berande meant everything. It must
succeed--not merely because Joan was a partner in it, but because
he wanted to make that partnership permanently binding. Three more
years and the plantation would be a splendid-paying investment.
They could then take yearly trips to Australia, and oftener; and an
occasional run home to England--or Hawaii, would come as a matter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: A- possessed over many other fashionable places of resort.
'You don't ask what brings me to A- ' said he. 'You can't suppose
I'm rich enough to come for my own pleasure.'
'I heard you had left Horton.'
'You didn't hear, then, that I had got the living of F-?'
F- was a village about two miles distant from A-.
'No,' said I; 'we live so completely out of the world, even here,
that news seldom reaches me through any quarter; except through the
medium of the - GAZETTE. But I hope you like your new parish; and
that I may congratulate you on the acquisition?'
'I expect to like my parish better a year or two hence, when I have
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