| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: man, if they're together.'
'If they're physically together,' said Connie.
'That's right, my Lady! There's a lot of hard-hearted folks in the
world. And every morning when he got up and went to th' pit, I felt it
was wrong, wrong. But what else could he do? What can a man do?'
A queer hate flared in the woman.
'But can a touch last so long?' Connie asked suddenly. 'That you could
feel him so long?'
'Oh my Lady, what else is there to last? Children grows away from you.
But the man, well! But even THAT they'd like to kill in you, the very
thought of the touch of him. Even your own children! Ah well! We might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Our son, on the instant, whole.'
So far I read;
And then stood up and spoke impetuously.
'O not to pry and peer on your reserve,
But led by golden wishes, and a hope
The child of regal compact, did I break
Your precinct; not a scorner of your sex
But venerator, zealous it should be
All that it might be: hear me, for I bear,
Though man, yet human, whatsoe'er your wrongs,
From the flaxen curl to the gray lock a life
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: hold of him I had a particular reason for wishing to read him now:
I had accepted an invitation to Bridges for the following Sunday,
and it had been mentioned in Lady Jane's note that Mr. Vereker was
to be there. I was young enough for a flutter at meeting a man of
his renown, and innocent enough to believe the occasion would
demand the display of an acquaintance with his "last."
Corvick, who had promised a review of it, had not even had time to
read it; he had gone to pieces in consequence of news requiring -
as on precipitate reflexion he judged - that he should catch the
night-mail to Paris. He had had a telegram from Gwendolen Erme in
answer to his letter offering to fly to her aid. I knew already
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