| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: from Salisbury station to the Old George after his farewell
to Martineau. He recalled too the soft firmness of her
profile and the delicate line of her lifted chin. He felt
that this time at any rate he was not being deceived by the
outward shows of a charming human being. This young woman had
real firmness of character to back up her free and
independent judgments. He smiled at the idea of any facile
passion in the composition of so sure and gallant a
personality. Martineau was very fine-minded in many respects,
but he was an old maid; and like all old maids he saw man and
woman in every encounter. But passion was a thing men and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: FOR ALL THAT YOU CAN CLAP YOUR EYES ON.
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS
For certain soldiers lately dead
Our reverent dirge shall here be said.
Them, when their martial leader called,
No dread preparative appalled;
But leaden-hearted, leaden-heeled,
I marked them steadfast in the field.
Death grimly sided with the foe,
And smote each leaden hero low.
Proudly they perished one by one:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: round, in front and behind, was the same fluctuating whity
darkness, sometimes seeming to get a little lighter and
sometimes growing denser still.
'A pity I listened to Nikita,' he thought. 'We ought to have
driven on. We should have come out somewhere, if only back to
Grishkino and stayed the night at Taras's. As it is we must
sit here all night. But what was I thinking about? Yes, that
God gives to those who take trouble, but not to loafers,
lie-abeds, or fools. I must have a smoke!'
He sat down again, got out his cigarette-case, and stretched
himself flat on his stomach, screening the matches with the
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