| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: stimulating human being.
"Evidently."
The doctor sighed, stood up and found himself delivering one
of the sentences he had engendered during his solitary
meditations in his room before dinner. He surprised himself
by the plainness of his speech. "Let me be frank," he said,
regarding Sir Richmond squarely. "Considering the general
situation of things and your position, I do not care very
greatly for the part of an accessory to what may easily
develop, as you know very well, into a very serious
flirtation. An absurd, mischievous, irrelevant flirtation.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: gallery 1s. Between the acts of the concert
will be given, gratis, several exercises
of rope-dancing and tumbling. There is
also arrived the little woman from Geneva,
who, by her extraordinary strength, performs
several curious things, viz. 1st. She
beats a red-hot iron that is made crooked
straight with her naked feet. 2ndly. She
puts her head on one chair, and her feet
on another, in an equilibrium, and suffers
five or six men to stand on her body, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Having done this, it had descended the valley of the Yenisei
and struck the road on a level with Alsalevsk. From this
little town began the frightful course of ruin which forms
the chief part of Tartar warfare. Nijni-Oudinsk had
shared the common fate, and the Tartars, to the number of
fifty thousand, had now quitted it to take up a position be-
fore Irkutsk. Before long, they would be reinforced by the
Emir's troops.
Such was the state of affairs at this date, most serious
for this isolated part of Eastern Siberia, and for the com-
paratively few defenders of its capital.
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