| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: For a time we smoked in silence....
"Did I tell you, Ponderevo, of a wonderful discovery I've made?"
Ewart began presently.
"No," I said, "what is it?"
"There's no Mrs. Grundy."
"No?"
"No! Practically not. I've just thought all that business out.
She's merely an instrument, Ponderevo. She's borne the blame.
Grundy's a man. Grundy unmasked. Rather lean and out of sorts.
Early middle age. With bunchy black whiskers and a worried eye.
Been good so far, and it's fretting him! Moods! There's Grundy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the new energy of the moment, all the dread of public exposure,
that had so long been the anguish of his life, had returned upon
him; and he was already trembling at the conjunction in which --
with a strange joy, nevertheless -- he now found himself -- " not
so, my child. I shall, indeed, stand with thy mother and thee
one other day, but not to-morrow. "
Pearl laughed, and attempted to pull away her hand. But the
minister held it fast.
A moment longer, my child!" said he.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: then left to run into squalidity and disrepair, but huge blocks of
building, each with its common eating-house, bar, baths,
washhouses, reading-room, common conveniences of every kind,
where, in free and pure country air, the workman will enjoy
comforts which our own grandfathers could not command, and at a
lower price than that which he now pays for such accommodation as
I should be ashamed to give to my own horses; while from these
great blocks of building, branch lines will convey the men to or
from their work by railroad, without loss of time, labour, or
health.
Then the city will become what it ought to be; the workshop, and
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