| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: hands in the pockets of his wrapper, drawing it together round his
legs and looking over the head of his visitor at the grey negations
of his window. She wound up with saying: "You see I bring you a
definite proposal."
"A definite proposal?"
"To make our relations regular, as it were - to put them on a
comfortable footing."
"I see - it's a system," said Pemberton. "A kind of organised
blackmail."
Mrs. Moreen bounded up, which was exactly what he wanted. "What do
you mean by that?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: crawl out," said Joseph; "Betsy'll take as good care of them there as
anywhere," whereupon the children looked the picture of misery and despair. At
this moment Rudolph emerged from the hole a mass of grass and dirt stains,
and both Mabel and Tattine thought he had been pretty plucky, though quite too
much preoccupied to tell him so, but Rudolph happily felt himself repaid for
hardships endured, in the delight of his discovery.
"It will be a month before they'll have sense enough to crawl out," he
remarked to Joseph, "and they're wedged in between some old planks in very
uncomfortable fashion. They look like fine little fellows too. I think we
ought to manage in some way to get them out."
"And it would be bad if any of them died there," said Joseph,rubbing his head
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: He took the oath with the same exaggerated seriousness as I gave it
to him.
'Now,' said I. 'Here is the key for you; I will hold the lid with
both hands in the meanwhile.' He turned the key. 'Bring up all
the candles in the room, and range them along-side. What is it to
be? A live gorgon, a Jack-in-the-box, or a spring that fires a
pistol? On your knees, sir, before the prodigy!'
So saying, I turned the despatch-box upside down upon the table.
At sight of the heap of bank paper and gold that lay in front of
us, between the candles, or rolled upon the floor alongside, I
stood astonished.
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