| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: gesticulated with his hands.
"So?" said Clayton, repeating.
"So," said Sanderson, and took his pipe in hand again.
"Ah, NOW," said Clayton, "I can do the whole thing--right."
He stood up before the waning fire and smiled at us all. But I think
there was just a little hesitation in his smile. "If I begin--"
he said.
"I wouldn't begin," said Wish.
"It's all right!" said Evans. "Matter is indestructible. You don't
think any jiggery-pokery of this sort is going to snatch Clayton
into the world of shades. Not it! You may try, Clayton, so far as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "My lord," said Sir Daniel, "have I not told you of this knave
Black Arrow? To the proof, behold it! There it stands, and, by
the rood, my gossip, in a man of yours, or one that stole your
colours!"
"In good sooth, it was a man of mine," replied Lord Shoreby,
hanging back. "I would I had more such. He was keen as a beagle
and secret as a mole."
"Ay, gossip, truly?" asked Sir Daniel, keenly. "And what came he
smelling up so many stairs in my poor mansion? But he will smell
no more."
"An't please you, Sir Daniel," said one, "here is a paper written
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: lips, something in all this beatitude somehow answered everything.
"And now I keep you," she said.
"Oh keep me, keep me!" he pleaded while her face still hung over
him: in response to which it dropped again and stayed close,
clingingly close. It was the seal of their situation - of which he
tasted the impress for a long blissful moment in silence. But he
came back. "Yet how did you know - ?"
"I was uneasy. You were to have come, you remember - and you had
sent no word."
"Yes, I remember - I was to have gone to you at one to-day." It
caught on to their "old" life and relation - which were so near and
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