| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: Pemberton learned at the same time from the boy that he had
answered every letter he had received. This led to the clear
inference that Pemberton's note had been kept from him so that the
game practised should not be interfered with. Mrs. Moreen was
prepared to see the fact exposed, as Pemberton saw the moment he
faced her that she was prepared for a good many other things. She
was prepared above all to maintain that she had acted from a sense
of duty, that she was enchanted she had got him over, whatever they
might say, and that it was useless of him to pretend he didn't know
in all his bones that his place at such a time was with Morgan. He
had taken the boy away from them and now had no right to abandon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: is a politeness with which we should always honor virtue. Ten o'clock
sounded. The Baron de Maulincour remembered that this woman was going
to a ball that evening at a house to which he had access. He dressed,
went there, and searched for her through all the salons. The mistress
of the house, Madame de Nucingen, seeing him thus occupied, said:--
"You are looking for Madame Jules; but she has not yet come."
"Good evening, dear," said a voice.
Auguste and Madame de Nucingen turned round. Madame Jules had arrived,
dressed in white, looking simple and noble, wearing in her hair the
marabouts the young baron had seen her choose in the flower-shop. That
voice of love now pierced his heart. Had he won the slightest right to
Ferragus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: a hundred yards or so to the westward of the ruins of the enclosure.
The men in it were dead, had been dead so long that they fell
to pieces when I tilted the boat on its side and dragged them out.
One had a shock of red hair, like the captain of the "Ipecacuanha," and
a dirty white cap lay in the bottom of the boat.
As I stood beside the boat, three of the Beasts came slinking
out of the bushes and sniffing towards me. One of my spasms
of disgust came upon me. I thrust the little boat down the beach
and clambered on board her. Two of the brutes were Wolf-beasts,
and came forward with quivering nostrils and glittering eyes;
the third was the horrible nondescript of bear and bull.
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