| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: They said (and it is but fair to take a statement which appears on
the face of all their writings; which is the one key-note on which
they ring perpetual changes), that the cause of the Church in France
was not that of humanity, but of inhumanity; not that of nature, but
of unnature; not even that of grace, but of disgrace. Truely or
falsely, they complained that the French clergy had not only
identified themselves with the repression of free thought, and of
physical science, especially that of the Newtonian astronomy, but
that they had proved themselves utterly unfit, for centuries past,
to exercise any censorship whatsoever over the thoughts of men:
that they had identified themselves with the cause of darkness, not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: present, since here comes mine host with an assistant, who seems
something of the least."
Everybody about the inn, Dame Crane herself included, had been
indeed so interested and agitated by the story they had heard of
Wayland Smith, and by the new, varying, and more marvellous
editions of the incident which arrived from various quarters,
that mine host, in his righteous determination to accommodate his
guests, had been able to obtain the assistance of none of his
household, saving that of a little boy, a junior tapster, of
about twelve years old, who was called Sampson.
"I wish," he said, apologizing to his guests, as he set down a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: She has studied immensely and read everything; she is what they call
in Boston 'thoughtful.'"
"A rum sort of girl for Lambeth to get hold of!" his lordship's
kinsman privately reflected.
"I really believe," Mrs. Westgate continued, "that the most charming
girl in the world is a Boston superstructure upon a New York fonds;
or perhaps a New York superstructure upon a Boston fonds. At any rate,
it's the mixture," said Mrs. Westgate, who continued to give Percy
Beaumont a great deal of information.
Lord Lambeth got into a little basket phaeton with Bessie Alden,
and she drove him down the long avenue, whose extent he had
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