| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: And he looked at his knee for a long time. "It is difficult
to explain," he said. He wished, evidently, to be very just.
"It rests on moral grounds, as Mr. Brand says.
It is the question whether it is the best thing for Gertrude."
"What is better--what is better, dear uncle?" Felix rejoined urgently,
rising in his urgency and standing before Mr. Wentworth.
His uncle had been looking at his knee; but when Felix moved
he transferred his gaze to the handle of the door which faced him.
"It is usually a fairly good thing for a girl to marry the man
she loves!" cried Felix.
While he spoke, Mr. Wentworth saw the handle of the door begin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: earthquakes, and the peaks of old volcanoes, cinder-strewn; while,
far beneath, the ghosts of their dead sisters hurried home upon
the north-east breeze.
Wild deeds they did as they rushed onward, and struggled and
fought among themselves, up and down, and round and backward, in
the fury of their blind hot youth. They heeded not the tree as
they snapped it, nor the ship as they whelmed it in the waves; nor
the cry of the sinking sailor, nor the need of his little ones on
shore; hasty and selfish even as children, and, like children,
tamed by their own rage. For they tired themselves by struggling
with each other, and by tearing the heavy water into waves; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: And indeed, as spectators are apt ignorantly to take sides, I grew
something of a partisan in the enmity which I perceived to smoulder
between them. True, it seemed mostly on the mother's part. She
would sometimes draw in her breath as he came near, and the pupils
of her vacant eyes would contract as if with horror or fear. Her
emotions, such as they were, were much upon the surface and readily
shared; and this latent repulsion occupied my mind, and kept me
wondering on what grounds it rested, and whether the son was
certainly in fault.
I had been about ten days in the residencia, when there sprang up a
high and harsh wind, carrying clouds of dust. It came out of
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