| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Fritze. On January 8th the consulate was destroyed by fire.
Knappe says it was the work of incendiaries, "without doubt";
Fritze admits that "everything seems to show" it was an accident.
"Tamasese's people fit to bear arms," writes Knappe, "are certainly
for the moment equal to Mataafa's," though restrained from battle
by the lack of ammunition. "As for Tamasese," says Fritze of the
same date, "he is now but a phantom - DIENT ER NUR ALS GESPENST.
His party, for practical purposes, is no longer large. They
pretend ammunition to be lacking, but what they lack most is good-
will. Captain Brandeis, whose influence is now small, declares
they can no longer sustain a serious engagement, and is himself in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: always feeling that sort of thing, as he said to himself - that if
the company had already been interesting to watch the interest
would now become intense. He shook hands with his hostess, who
welcomed him without many words, in the manner of a woman able to
trust him to understand and conscious that so pleasant an occasion
would in every way speak for itself. She offered him no particular
facility for sitting by her, and when they had all subsided again
he found himself still next General Fancourt, with an unknown lady
on his other flank.
"That's my daughter - that one opposite," the General said to him
without lose of time. Overt saw a tall girl, with magnificent red
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: forehead puckered into strong wrinkles; eyes set well up[2] in the
head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression
between the eyes pronounced;[3] ears long[4] and thin, without hair on
the under side; neck long and flexible, freely moving on its pivot;[5]
chest broad and fairly fleshy; shoulder-blades detached a little from
the shoulders;[6] the shin-bones of the fore-legs should be small,
straight, round, stout and strong; the elbows straight; ribs[7] not
deep all along, but sloped away obliquely; the loins muscular, in size
a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff;[8]
flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or "couples")
rounded, fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on
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