| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: years, and of a strong, speaking, and intellectual
countenance stigmatised by weariness and famine. He beckoned
my father near the cliff, and there, in the most private
whisper, begged for brandy. My father looked at him with
scorn: 'You remind me,' he said, 'of a neglected duty. Here
is my flask; it contains enough, I trust, to revive the women
of your party; and I will begin with her whom I saw you
robbing of her blankets.' And with that, not heeding his
appeals, my father turned his back upon the egoist.
The girl still lay reclined against the rock; she lay too far
sunk in the first stage of death to have observed the bustle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: before this instantaneously aroused emotion had, as instantaneously,
disappeared from his wooden features. Once more they assumed a
careworn expression, and he even wiped his face with his handkerchief,
then rolled it into a ball, and rubbed it to and fro against his upper
lip.
"If it will not annoy you again to state the proposal," he went on,
"what you undertake to do is to pay the annual tax upon these souls,
and to remit the money either to me or to the Treasury?"
"Yes, that is how it shall be done. We will draw up a deed of purchase
as though the souls were still alive and you had sold them to myself."
"Quite so--a deed of purchase," echoed Plushkin, once more relapsing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: and it looked as fresh and gay and thriving as she and Evelina had
once dreamed of making Bunner Sisters. The friendly air of the
place made her pluck up courage to speak.
"Saleslady? Yes, we do want one. Have you any one to
recommend?" the young woman asked, not unkindly.
Ann Eliza hesitated, disconcerted by the unexpected question;
and the other, cocking her head on one side to study the effect of
the bow she had just sewed on the basket, continued: "We can't
afford more than thirty dollars a month, but the work is light.
She would be expected to do a little fancy sewing between times.
We want a bright girl: stylish, and pleasant manners. You know
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