| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: and put you on board. It's a big boat; you might get lost.
A few days hence, at the end of the week, I will come down
to Newport and see how you are getting on."
The two young Englishmen inaugurated the policy of not resisting Mrs. Westgate
by submitting, with great docility and thankfulness, to her husband.
He was evidently a very good fellow, and he made an impression upon
his visitors; his hospitality seemed to recommend itself consciously--
with a friendly wink, as it were--as if it hinted, judicially, that you
could not possibly make a better bargain. Lord Lambeth and his cousin
left their entertainer to his labors and returned to their hotel,
where they spent three or four hours in their respective shower baths.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: for Bretty to be paid, Paul went in among the crowd. The pay-room
was quite small. A counter went across, dividing it into half.
Behind the counter stood two men--Mr. Braithwaite and his clerk,
Mr. Winterbottom. Mr. Braithwaite was large, somewhat of the stern
patriarch in appearance, having a rather thin white beard.
He was usually muffled in an enormous silk neckerchief, and right
up to the hot summer a huge fire burned in the open grate.
No window was open. Sometimes in winter the air scorched the throats
of the people, coming in from the freshness. Mr. Winterbottom
was rather small and fat, and very bald. He made remarks that were
not witty, whilst his chief launched forth patriarchal admonitions
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: lieved the young traveler from his unpleasant vicinity.
The latter looked at the young man for an instant, and
mute and modest thanks were in that look.
But a circumstance occurred which gave Strogoff a just
idea of the character of the maiden. Twelve versts before
arriving at Nijni-Novgorod, at a sharp curve of the iron
way, the train experienced a very violent shock. Then, for
a minute, it ran onto the slope of an embankment.
Travelers more or less shaken about, cries, confusion,
general disorder in the carriages -- such was the effect at
first produced. It was to be feared that some serious acci-
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