| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: it," he saw; "it is only expressing to men feebly your desire
that it should prevail." For his part, he would not "for an
instant recognise that political organisation for HIS
government which is the SLAVE'S government also." "I do not
hesitate to say," he adds, "that those who call themselves
Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their
support, both in person and property, from the government of
Massachusetts." That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to
pay the poll-tax. The highway-tax he paid, for he said he
was as desirous to be a good neighbour as to be a bad
subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: 'Say half an hour at the Falcon to change my dress.
'Say two hours waiting for some train and getting to Plymouth.
'Say an hour to spare before twelve o'clock.
'Total time from leaving Endelstow till twelve o'clock, five
hours.
'Therefore I shall have to start at seven.'
No surprise or sense of unwontedness entered the minds of the
servants at her early ride. The monotony of life we associate
with people of small incomes in districts out of the sound of the
railway whistle, has one exception, which puts into shade the
experience of dwellers about the great centres of population--that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: some day that suits you. There are a lot of things I want to do for you.
I want to make you have a good time. And I should like very much
to present some of my friends to you, if it wouldn't bore you.
Then it would be awfully kind of you to come down to Branches."
"We are much obliged to you, Lord Lambeth," said Bessie.
"What is Branches?"
"It's a house in the country. I think you might like it."
Willie Woodley and Mrs. Westgate at this moment were sitting
in silence, and the young man's ear caught these last words of Lord
Lambeth's. "He's inviting Miss Bessie to one of his castles,"
he murmured to his companion.
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