| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: He thought she looked very clever; he could imagine that she was
highly educated; but at the same time she seemed gentle and graceful.
For all her cleverness, however, he felt that she had to think a little
what to say; she didn't say the first thing that came into her head;
he had come from a different part of the world and from a different society,
and she was trying to adapt her conversation. The others were scattering
themselves near the rocks; Mrs. Westgate had charge of Percy Beaumont.
"Very jolly place, isn't it?" said Lord Lambeth.
"It's a very jolly place to sit."
"Very charming," said the young girl. "I often sit here;
there are all kinds of cozy corners--as if they had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: one cared to address Hathi directly, and then he cried: "What
is Shere Khan's right, O Hathi?" Both banks echoed his words,
for all the People of the Jungle are intensely curious, and
they had just seen something that none except Baloo, who looked
very thoughtful, seemed to understand.
"It is an old tale," said Hathi; "a tale older than the Jungle.
Keep silence along the banks and I will tell that tale."
There was a minute or two of pushing a shouldering among the
pigs and the buffalo, and then the leaders of the herds
grunted, one after another, "We wait," and Hathi strode
forward, till he was nearly knee-deep in the pool by the Peace
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: loves her, Monsieur George. He loves her, this poor, luckless,
perfect homme du monde."
The silence lasted for some time and then I heard a murmur: "It's
a matter of the utmost delicacy between two beings so sensitive, so
proud. It has to be managed."
I found myself suddenly on my feet and saying with the utmost
politeness that I had to beg her permission to leave her alone as I
had an engagement; but she motioned me simply to sit down - and I
sat down again.
"I told you I had a request to make," she said. "I have understood
from Mr. Mills that you have been to the West Indies, that you have
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