| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: it's an added tie between us!"
He laughed slightly, without bitterness, and pushed one of the
deep arm-chairs forward. "There: make yourself comfortable--and
here are the cigars you like."
He placed them at my elbow and continued to wander up and down
the room, stopping now and then beneath the picture.
"How it happened? I can tell you in five minutes--and it didn't
take much longer to happen. . . . I can remember now how
surprised and pleased I was when I got Mrs. Stroud's note. Of
course, deep down, I had always FELT there was no one like him--
only I had gone with the stream, echoed the usual platitudes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: and his manner unwontedly demonstrative. He leaned forward at
these last words, for example, and touched me on the knee with his
spread fingers, looking up into my face with a certain pallor, and
I could see that his eyes shone with a deep-seated fire, and that
the lines about his mouth were drawn and tremulous.
Even the entrance of Rorie, and the beginning of our meal, did not
detach him from his train of thought beyond a moment. He
condescended, indeed, to ask me some questions as to my success at
college, but I thought it was with half his mind; and even in his
extempore grace, which was, as usual, long and wandering, I could
find the trace of his preoccupation, praying, as he did, that God
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly.
In answer to the count's inquiries she replied that things were all
right and that she would tell about it next day. On hearing of
Countess Bezukhova's visit and the invitation for that evening,
Marya Dmitrievna remarked:
"I don't care to have anything to do with Bezukhova and don't advise
you to; however, if you've promised- go. It will divert your
thoughts," she added, addressing Natasha.
CHAPTER XIII
Count Rostov took the girls to Countess Bezukhova's. There were a
good many people there, but nearly all strangers to Natasha. Count
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