| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: would wonder how he would get away, and for a moment expected her
to enquire. She didn't, for which he was almost grateful to her,
so little was he in a position to tell.
"You won't, you KNOW you won't - you're too interested," she said.
"You are interested, you know you are, you dear kind man!" She
laughed with almost condemnatory archness, as if it were a reproach
- though she wouldn't insist; and flirted a soiled pocket-
handkerchief at him.
Pemberton's mind was fully made up to take his step the following
week. This would give him time to get an answer to a letter he had
despatched to England. If he did in the event nothing of the sort
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: for himself at any rate, the exponent, not the cause, of the
events that will be for ever linked with his name.
THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF PUBLIC ECONOMY
February 20th.
To-day was an unlucky day. I felt tired, ill and hungry, and
had arranged to talk with both Rykov, the President of the
Supreme Council of People's Economy, and Krestinsky, the
Commissar of Finance, at such awkward times that I got no
tea and could get nothing to eat until after four o'clock. Two
such talks on an empty stomach (for the day before I had
had only a plate of soup and a little scrap of fish) were a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: myself why this one shouldn't take its course. This therefore is
what you're entitled to have looked to me to mention to you. I've
some evidence that perhaps would be really dissuasive, but I
propose to invite Mss Anvoy to remain in ignorance of it."
"And to invite me to do the same?"
"Oh you don't require it--you've evidence enough. I speak of a
sealed letter that I've been requested to deliver to her."
"And you don't mean to?"
"There's only one consideration that would make me," I said.
Gravener's clear handsome eyes plunged into mine a minute, but
evidently without fishing up a clue to this motive--a failure by
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