| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "And pray who is to guarantee hers?"
"Ah, you are cruel!" said the young man. "She's a very nice young girl."
"You don't say that as if you believed it," Mrs. Costello observed.
"She is completely uncultivated," Winterbourne went on.
"But she is wonderfully pretty, and, in short, she is very nice.
To prove that I believe it, I am going to take her to the
Chateau de Chillon."
"You two are going off there together? I should say it
proved just the contrary. How long had you known her,
may I ask, when this interesting project was formed?
You haven't been twenty-four hours in the house."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: chronology existed. . . . But she insists on dates."
"Nothing of bronze has ever been found here," said Sir
Richmond.
"Well, when was this early bronze age, anyhow?" said the
young lady.
Sir Richmond sought a recognizable datum. "Bronze got to
Britain somewhere between the times of Moses and Solomon."
"Ah! " said the young lady, as who should say, 'This man at
least talks sense.'
"But these stones are all shaped," said the father of the
family. "It is difficult to see how that could have been done
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: "I congratulate you," replied Ardan.
"Here are the nine thousand dollars," said the captain, drawing
a roll of paper dollars from his pocket.
"Will you have a receipt for it?" asked Barbicane, taking the sum.
"If you do not mind," answered Nicholl; "it is more business-like."
And coolly and seriously, as if he had been at his strong-box,
the president drew forth his notebook, tore out a blank leaf,
wrote a proper receipt in pencil, dated and signed it with the
usual flourish, [1] and gave it to the captain, who carefully placed
it in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off his hat, bowed to
his two companions without speaking. So much formality under such
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