| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: deeply over the back of the chair.
"It would just do to save me," he said in a tremulous
voice.
"I've saved you once."
The chief engineer took off his coat with careful
movements, and proceeded to feel for the brass hook
screwed into the wooden stanchion. For this purpose he
placed himself right in front of the binnacle, thus hid-
ing completely the compass-card from the quarter-
master at the wheel. "Tuan!" the lascar at last mur-
mured softly, meaning to let the white man know that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: She came toward the Baroness with a light, quick step,
and with perfect self-possession, rolling her stocking round
its needles. She had dark blue eyes and dark brown hair;
she was wonderfully pretty.
Eugenia kissed her, as she had kissed the other young women,
and then held her off a little, looking at her. "Now this is quite
another type," she said; she pronounced the word in the French manner.
"This is a different outline, my uncle, a different character,
from that of your own daughters. This, Felix," she went on,
"is very much more what we have always thought of as the American type."
The young girl, during this exposition, was smiling askance at every
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: by her staying so long, she had found more to enjoy than to suffer.
Charles Hayter had been at Lyme oftener than suited her; and when
they dined with the Harvilles there had been only a maid-servant to wait,
and at first Mrs Harville had always given Mrs Musgrove precedence;
but then, she had received so very handsome an apology from her
on finding out whose daughter she was, and there had been so much
going on every day, there had been so many walks between their lodgings
and the Harvilles, and she had got books from the library,
and changed them so often, that the balance had certainly been
much in favour of Lyme. She had been taken to Charmouth too,
and she had bathed, and she had gone to church, and there were a great many
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