| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: "The world has no charity," said Mrs. Milton.
"For a girl," said Jessie. "No."
"Now do let us stop arguing, my dear young lady, and let us
listen to reason. Never mind how or why, this conduct of yours
will do you infinite harm, if once it is generally known. And not
only that, it will cause infinite pain to those who care for you.
But if you will return at once to your home, causing it to be
understood that you have been with friends for these last few
days--"
"Tell lies," said Jessie. "Certainly not. Most certainly not. But
I understand that is how your absence is understood at present,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: that was what had been in the lap of the gods. He had had her word
for it as he left her--what else on earth could she have meant? It
wasn't a thing of a monstrous order; not a fate rare and
distinguished; not a stroke of fortune that overwhelmed and
immortalised; it had only the stamp of the common doom. But poor
Marcher at this hour judged the common doom sufficient. It would
serve his turn, and even as the consummation of infinite waiting he
would bend his pride to accept it. He sat down on a bench in the
twilight. He hadn't been a fool. Something had BEEN, as she had
said, to come. Before he rose indeed it had quite struck him that
the final fact really matched with the long avenue through which he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: inherited, and have not differed within this same period. In these remarks
we have referred to special parts or organs being still variable, because
they have recently varied and thus come to differ; but we have also seen in
the second Chapter that the same principle applies to the whole individual;
for in a district where many species of any genus are found--that is, where
there has been much former variation and differentiation, or where the
manufactory of new specific forms has been actively at work--there, on an
average, we now find most varieties or incipient species. Secondary sexual
characters are highly variable, and such characters differ much in the
species of the same group. Variability in the same parts of the
organisation has generally been taken advantage of in giving secondary
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