| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: imaginings, her dream-mountain dwindled into a beastly "hold-your-nose"
affair, to be passed as quickly as possible, with anger and a strong sense
of superiority.
The landlady bounced out of the room, banging the door, so that it shook
and rattled as though it had listened to the conversation and fully
sympathised with the old hag.
Squatting on her heels, Viola opened the letter. It was from Casimir:
"I shall be with you at three o'clock this afternoon--and must be off again
this evening. All news when we meet. I hope you are happier than I.--
CASIMIR."
"Huh! how kind!" she sneered; "how condescending. Too good of you,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Are daily given to ennoble those
That scarce some two days since were worth a noble.
QUEEN ELIZABETH. By Him that rais'd me to this careful
height
From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,
I never did incense his Majesty
Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been
An earnest advocate to plead for him.
My lord, you do me shameful injury
Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.
GLOUCESTER. You may deny that you were not the mean
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: house of the president. His Majesty himself beholds it daily, and
the tenor of his thoughts may be divined. The fine house of a
Samoan chief is his appropriate attribute; yet, after seventeen
months, the government (well housed themselves) have not yet found
- have not yet sought - a roof-tree for their sovereign. And the
lodging is typical. I take up the president's financial statement
of September 8, 1891. I find the king's allowance to figure at
seventy-five dollars a month; and I find that he is further (though
somewhat obscurely) debited with the salaries of either two or
three clerks. Take the outside figure, and the sum expended on or
for His Majesty amounts to ninety-five dollars in the month.
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