| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured tone, that she "WISHED they
might be happy." Thursday was to be the wedding day, and on
Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and when she
rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother's
ungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected
herself, accompanied her out of the room. As they went
downstairs together, Charlotte said:
"I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza."
"THAT you certainly shall."
"And I have another favour to ask you. Will you come and see
me?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: and forests of chimneys in the background, begins a steady
processional movement. The group of engineers and officers and
naval men appears at the other side of the door and farther off.
Then comes a sprint down hill. You descend and stretch your
legs.
About the field other Tanks are doing their stunts. One is
struggling in an apoplectic way in the mud pit with a cheek half
buried. It noses its way out and on with an air of animal
relief.
They are like jokes by Heath Robinson. One forgets that these
things have already saved the lives of many hundreds of our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Thy very beams will dry those vapours up,
For every cloud engenders not a storm.
GLOSTER.
The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,
And Somerset, with Oxford, fled to her;
If she have time to breathe, be well assur'd,
Her faction will be full as strong as ours.
KING EDWARD.
We are advertis'd by our loving friends
That they do hold their course toward Tewkesbury.
We, having now the best at Barnet field,
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