| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: answered in subdued tones, and protruding his lips sadly, in sign
of sorrow for the deceased diplomat. The First Secretary observed
this play of physiognomy steadily.
"Ah! ever since. Well! What have you got to say for yourself?" he
asked sharply.
Mr Verloc answered with some surprise that he was not aware of
having anything special to say. He had been summoned by a letter -
And he plunged his hand busily into the side pocket of his
overcoat, but before the mocking, cynical watchfulness of Mr
Vladimir, concluded to leave it there.
"Bah!" said that latter. "What do you mean by getting out of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: disappear. A yawning hole was all that was to be seen. The
bottom had dropped out of the trail.
John Thornton and Buck looked at each other.
"You poor devil," said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.
Chapter VI
For the Love of a Man
When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December his
partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going
on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for
Dawson. He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued
Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: against
the tender blue, before it vanished over the hill.
For a long time he sat there watching and wondering. It was
a very different world from that in which his mansion on the
Avenue
was built; and it looked strange to him, but most real--as real
as
anything he had ever seen. Presently he felt a strong desire
to know what country it was and where the people were going.
He had a faint premonition of what it must be, but he wished to
be sure.
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