| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: quarts. Say, did you hear about Heiny's crowd?"
"No," said Miss Fink, evenly, and began to study the first
page of the wine list under the heading "Champagnes of Noted
Vintages."
"Well," went on Miss Sweeney's little thin, malicious voice,
"he's fell in soft. There's a table of three, and they're drinkin'
1874 Imperial Crown at twelve dollars per, like it was Waukesha
ale. And every time they finish a bottle one of the guys pays for
it with a brand new ten and a brand new five and tells Heiny to
keep the change. Can you beat it?"
"I hope," said Miss Fink, pleasantly, "that the supply of 1874
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: My schoolmaster was a capable sane man in advance of his
times and my people believed in him. I think much of this
distorted perverse stuff that grows up in people's minds
about sex and develops into evil vices and still more evil
habits, is due to the mystery we make about these things."
"Not entirely," said the doctor.
"Largely. What child under a modern upbringing ever goes
through the stuffy horrors described in James Joyce's
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN."
"I've not read it."
"A picture of the Catholic atmosphere; a young soul shut up
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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: wrapped. I had of course none the less to recollect that his wife
might have imposed her conditions and exactions. I had above all
to remind myself that with Vereker's death the major incentive
dropped. He was still there to be honoured by what might be done -
he was no longer there to give it his sanction. Who alas but he
had the authority?
Two children were born to the pair, but the second cost the mother
her life. After this stroke I seemed to see another ghost of a
chance. I jumped at it in thought, but I waited a certain time for
manners, and at last my opportunity arrived in a remunerative way.
His wife had been dead a year when I met Drayton Deane in the
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