| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: England. He joined Betty in the opinion that the duty of a free and
wealthy young man was to remain in England and give himself to
democratic Socialism and the abolition of "profiteering." "Consider
that chair," he said. But Benham had little feeling for the
craftsmanship of chairs.
Under cross-examination Mr. Rathbone-Sanders became entangled and
prophetic. It was evident he had never thought out his
"democratic," he had rested in some vague tangle of idealism from
which Benham now set himself with the zeal of a specialist to rout
him. Such an argument sprang up as one meets with rarely beyond the
happy undergraduate's range. Everybody lived in the discussion,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: looked at her ironically.
"I've never prevented your seeing your friends here," he broke
out. "Why do you meet Flamel in out-of-the-way places? Nothing
makes a woman so cheap--"
She rose abruptly and they faced each other a few feet apart.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I saw you with him last Sunday on the Riverside Drive," he went
on, the utterance of the charge reviving his anger.
"Ah," she murmured. She sank into her chair again and began to
play with a paper-knife that lay on the table at her elbow.
Her silence exasperated him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: On my first day I had spent several hours in the vain effort to
catch something better than small grayling. The best time for the
trout was just approaching, as the broad light faded from the
stream; already they were beginning to feed, when I looked up from
the edge of a pool and saw the train rattling down the valley below
me. Under the circumstances the only thing to do was to go on
fishing. It was an even pool with steep banks, and the water ran
through it very straight and swift, some four feet deep and thirty
yards across. As the tail-fly reached the middle of the water, a
fine trout literally turned a somersault over it, but without
touching it. At the next cast he was ready, taking it with a rush
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