| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: You are wandering round, not knowing what to do with yourself
next."
There was no need for anybody to tell George that. "What do you
think?" he asked abruptly. "Is there any hope for me?"
"I think there is," said the other, who, in spite of his
resolution, had become a sort of ambassador for the unhappy
husband. He had to go to the Loches house to attend the child,
and so he could not help seeing Henriette, and talking to her
about the child's health and her own future. He considered that
George had had his lesson, and urged upon the young wife that he
would be wiser in future, and safe to trust.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: me; then set fire, O Haman! to some clay and make for me a tower,
haply I may mount up to the God of Moses; for, verily, I think he is
of those who lie!'
And he grew big with pride, he and his armies in the land, without
right; and they thought that they to us should not return. And we
overtook him and his army, and we flung them into the sea; behold,
then, how was the end of the unjust!
But we made them models calling to the fire; and on the resurrection
day they shall not be helped; and we followed them up in this world
with a curse; and on the resurrection day they shall be abhorred!
And we gave Moses the Book, after that we had destroyed the former
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: of Mrs. Rushworth, he would never have offered so great an
insult to the neighbourhood as to expect it to notice her.
As a daughter, he hoped a penitent one, she should be
protected by him, and secured in every comfort, and supported
by every encouragement to do right, which their relative
situations admitted; but farther than _that_ he could not go.
Maria had destroyed her own character, and he would not,
by a vain attempt to restore what never could be restored,
by affording his sanction to vice, or in seeking to lessen
its disgrace, be anywise accessory to introducing such
misery in another man's family as he had known himself.
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