| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: the pair were not congenial, and further conversation, even to
one of Mr Finsbury's pathetic loquacity, was out of the question.
With an angry gesture, he pulled down the brim of the forage-cap
over his eyes, and, producing a notebook and a blue pencil from
one of his innermost pockets, soon became absorbed in
calculations.
On his part the carrier fell to whistling with fresh zest; and if
(now and again) he glanced at the companion of his drive, it was
with mingled feelings of triumph and alarm--triumph because he
had succeeded in arresting that prodigy of speech, and alarm lest
(by any accident) it should begin again. Even the shower, which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: father, sitting in their hovel, awaited, in silence and darkness, a
meal of the coarsest bread and shell-fish, if the sea permitted.
"Do you ever drink wine?" I asked.
"Three or four times a year," he replied.
"Well, you shall drink it to-day,--you and your father; and we will
send you some white bread."
"You are very kind, monsieur."
"We will give you your dinner if you will show us the way along the
shore to Batz, where we wish to see the tower which overlooks the bay
between Batz and Croisic."
"With pleasure," he said. "Go straight before you, along the path you
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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: her up thoroughly. She turned her head upon the cushion to look at
me.
"It's a very extraordinary thing, we two coming together like
this," she said with conviction. "You coming in without knowing I
was here and then telling me that you can't very well go out of the
room. That sounds funny. I wouldn't have been angry if you had
said that you wouldn't. It would have hurt me. But nobody ever
paid much attention to my feelings. Why do you smile like this?"
"At a thought. Without any charlatanism of passion I am able to
tell you of something to match your devotion. I was not afraid for
your sake to come within a hair's breadth of what to all the world
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