| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: unexpectedly, returning from the window. "We don't mind what
anything costs - we live awfully well."
"My darling, you're too quaint!" his mother exclaimed, putting out
to caress him a practised but ineffectual hand. He slipped out of
it, but looked with intelligent innocent eyes at Pemberton, who had
already had time to notice that from one moment to the other his
small satiric face seemed to change its time of life. At this
moment it was infantine, yet it appeared also to be under the
influence of curious intuitions and knowledges. Pemberton rather
disliked precocity and was disappointed to find gleams of it in a
disciple not yet in his teens. Nevertheless he divined on the spot
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: {1} This lecture was one of a series of "Lectures to Ladies,"
given in London in 1855, at the Needlewoman's Institution.
{2} The substance of this Essay was a lecture on Physical
Education, given at the Midland Institute, Birmingham, in 1872.
{3} 9, Adam Street, Adelphi, London.
{4} A Lecture delivered at Winchester, May 31, 1869.
{5} Lecture delivered at Winchester, March 17, 1869.
{6} I quote from the translation of the late lamented Philip
Stanhope Worsley, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
{7} Odyssey, book vi. 127-315; vol. i. pp. 143-150 of Mr.
Worsley's translation.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: daughter were perfectly willing to return to Besancon for the 15th of
August, and to remain there till the end of the month.
When, after dinner, the Vicar-General took Mademoiselle de Watteville
apart, to open the question of the marriage, by explaining to her that
it was vain to think any more of Albert, of whom they had had no news
for a year past, he was stopped at once by a sign from Rosalie. The
strange girl took Monsieur de Grancey by the arm, and led him to a
seat under a clump of rhododendrons, whence there was a view of the
lake.
"Listen, dear Abbe," said she. "You whom I love as much as my father,
for you had an affection for my Albert, I must at last confess that I
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