| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Charlotte got up, trembling extremely, though imperceptibly.
"You must speak to my father yourself," she said.
"I think you are clever enough."
But Felix, rising too, begged her to remain. "I can speak better
to an audience!" he declared.
"I hope it is nothing disagreeable," said Mr. Wentworth.
"It 's something delightful, for me!" And Felix, laying down his hat,
clasped his hands a little between his knees. "My dear uncle,"
he said, "I desire, very earnestly, to marry your daughter Gertrude."
Charlotte sank slowly into her chair again, and Mr. Wentworth
sat staring, with a light in his face that might have been flashed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: with Niclaus and lived in his prau. I daresay he put Niclaus up to
a thing or two. Anyhow, it was a partnership. Niclaus was
somewhat afraid of the Frenchman on account of his tempers, which
were awful. He looked then like a devil; but a man without hands,
unable to load or handle a weapon, can at best go for one only with
his teeth. From that danger Niclaus felt certain he could always
defend himself.
"The couple were alone together loafing in the common-room of that
infamous hotel when Fector turned up. After some beating about the
bush, for he was doubtful how far he could trust these two, he
repeated what he had overheard in the tiffin-rooms.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: sun and air."
"Ay! ay! this is a courtlike requital of my service to you,
Master Richard Varney," replied Foster. "Didst thou not charge
me to seek out for thee a fellow who had a good sword and an
unscrupulous conscience? and was I not busying myself to find a
fit man--for, thank Heaven, my acquaintance lies not amongst such
companions--when, as Heaven would have it, this tall fellow, who
is in all his dualities the very flashing knave thou didst wish,
came hither to fix acquaintance upon me in the plenitude of his
impudence; and I admitted his claim, thinking to do you a
pleasure. And now see what thanks I get for disgracing myself by
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