| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the
satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any
pain but herself.
Mrs. Gardiner and Elizabeth talked of all that had occurred during their visit, as they returned,
except what had particularly interested them both. The look and behaviour of everybody they had
seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention. They talked
of his sister, his friends, his house, his fruit-- of everything but himself; yet Elizabeth was longing
to know what Mrs. Gardiner thought of him, and Mrs. Gardiner would have been highly gratified
by her niece's beginning the subject.
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Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: At these words I fell to shaking.
"Oh,"' says he, "you need not be afraid of me. I bear no malice
for your tedious letters; and it is my purpose to employ you a good
deal. You may call me Mr. Bally: it is the name I have assumed;
or rather (since I am addressing so great a precision) it is so I
have curtailed my own. Come now, pick up that and that" -
indicating two of the portmanteaus. "That will be as much as you
are fit to bear, and the rest can very well wait. Come, lose no
more time, if you please."
His tone was so cutting that I managed to do as he bid by a sort of
instinct, my mind being all the time quite lost. No sooner had I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: knock him out of his saddle an thou lovest me!"
Myles, in his high-keyed nervousness, could not forbear a short
hysterical laugh at his friend's warmth of enthusiasm. He took
the fresh lance in his hand, and then, seeing that his opponent
was walking his horse slowly up and down at his end of the lists,
did the same during the little time of rest before the next
encounter.
When, in answer to the command of the Marshal, he took his place
a second time, he found himself calmer and more collected than
before, but every faculty no less intensely fixed than it had
been at first. Once more the Marshal raised his baton, once more
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