| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: dram?
JESSAMY
What is that, the love-token from the deacon's
daughter?--You come on bravely. But I must hasten
to my master. Adieu, my dear friend.
JONATHAN
Stay, Mr. Jessamy--must I buss her when I am
introduced to her?
JESSAMY
I told you, you must kiss her.
JONATHAN
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: save a precious sight of manoeuvring.'
And sure enough, when they had knocked at the door, Gideon
admitted them in person to a room, warmed by a moderate fire,
framed nearly to the roof in works connected with the bench of
British Themis, and offering, except in one particular, eloquent
testimony to the legal zeal of the proprietor. The one particular
was the chimney-piece, which displayed a varied assortment of
pipes, tobacco, cigar-boxes, and yellow-backed French novels.
'Mr Forsyth, I believe?' It was Michael who thus opened the
engagement. 'We have come to trouble you with a piece of
business. I fear it's scarcely professional--'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: announced at the earliest day--characterising the whole business,
from that moment, as their "plans," under which name he handled it
as a Syndicate handles a Chinese or other Loan--he had promptly
declared that the question must be thoroughly studied, and he
produced, on the whole subject, from day to day, an amount of
information that excited her wonder and even, not a little, as she
frankly let him know, her disdain. When she thought of the danger
in which another pair of lovers rapturously lived she enquired of
him anew why he could leave nothing to chance. Then she got for
answer that this profundity was just his pride, and he pitted
Ramsgate against Bournemouth and even Boulogne against Jersey--for
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