| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: Ramage leaned over the gate at Ann Veronica's side, and for a
moment there was silence.
He made some obvious comments on the wide view warming toward its
autumnal blaze that spread itself in hill and valley, wood and
village, below.
"It's as broad as life," said Mr. Ramage, regarding it and
putting a well-booted foot up on the bottom rail.
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"And what are you doing here, young lady," he said, looking up at
her face, "wandering alone so far from home?"
"I like long walks," said Ann Veronica, looking down on him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: with so much constancy; their motherly, superior tenderness to
man's vanity and self-importance; their managing arts - the arts of
a civilised slave among good-natured barbarians - are all painful
ingredients and all help to falsify relations. It is not till we
get clear of that amusing artificial scene that genuine relations
are founded, or ideas honestly compared. In the garden, on the
road or the hillside, or TETE-A-TETE and apart from interruptions,
occasions arise when we may learn much from any single woman; and
nowhere more often than in married life. Marriage is one long
conversation, chequered by disputes. The disputes are valueless;
they but ingrain the difference; the heroic heart of woman
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: him. He had himself taken to the vapour baths, and called for his
cooks.
Three hours afterwards he was still immersed in the oil of cinnamomum
with which the basin had been filled; and while he bathed he ate
flamingoes' tongues with honied poppy-seeds on a spread ox-hide.
Beside him was his Greek physician, motionless, in a long yellow robe,
directing the re-heating of the bath from time to time, and two young
boys leaned over the steps of the basin and rubbed his legs. But
attention to his body did not check his love for the commonwealth, for
he was dictating a letter to be sent to the Great Council, and as some
prisoners had just been taken he was asking himself what terrible
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