| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "She is made to feel it," the young girl insisted--"as if they were afraid
she would make a rush for the door. No; you have a lovely country,"
said Bessie Alden, "but your precedence is horrid."
"I certainly shouldn't think your sister would like it,"
rejoined Lord Lambeth with even exaggerated gravity.
But Bessie Alden could induce him to enter no formal protest
against this repulsive custom, which he seemed to think
an extreme convenience.
Percy Beaumont all this time had been a very much less
frequent visitor at Jones's Hotel than his noble kinsman;
he had, in fact, called but twice upon the two American ladies.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Glumdalclitch, my little nurse, told me the whole matter, which
she had cunningly picked out from her mother. The poor girl laid
me on her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief. She
apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude vulgar
folks, who might squeeze me to death, or break one of my limbs by
taking me in their hands. She had also observed how modest I was
in my nature, how nicely I regarded my honour, and what an
indignity I should conceive it, to be exposed for money as a
public spectacle, to the meanest of the people. She said, her
papa and mamma had promised that Grildrig should be hers; but now
she found they meant to serve her as they did last year, when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: "Please, please," she begged. "We can never marry, so don't let
us discuss it."
"Then I copper your bet to lose." He was almost gay, now, for
success was coming faster than his fondest imagining. She liked
him, without a doubt; and without a doubt she liked him well
enough to let him hold her hand, well enough to be not repelled
by the nearness of him.
She shook her head. "No, it is impossible. You would lose your
bet."
For the first time a dark suspicion crossed Daylight's mind--a
clew
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