| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: up to now that my marriage with Harry has been arranged, if he did
not possess the extraordinary faculty of knowing everything.
As far as I
am able to judge, my grandfather, in his very insanity,
is a man of most powerful mind. He formerly used to talk to me
on very lofty subjects. He taught me the existence of God,
and never deceived me but on one point, which was--that he made me
believe that all men were base and perfidious, because he wished
to inspire me with his own hatred of all the human race.
When Harry brought me to the cottage, you thought I was simply
ignorant of mankind, but, far beyond that, I was in mortal fear
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: made, and not without occasionally shutting the companion, to
avoid being wetted by the successive seas which broke over the
bows and fell upon different parts of the deck according to
the impetus with which the waves struck the vessel. By this
time it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the
gale, which had now continued with unabated force for twenty-
seven hours, had not the least appearance of going off.
In the dismal prospect of undergoing another night like
the last, and being in imminent hazard of parting from our
cable, the writer thought it necessary to advise with the
master and officers of the ship as to the probable event of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: justified in giving up business and doing something: something
first-class. But it was no good: I couldnt fail. I said to myself
that if I could only once go to my Chickabiddy here and shew her a
chartered accountant's statement proving that I'd made 20 pounds less
than last year, I could ask her to let me chance Johnny's and
Hypatia's future by going into literature. But it was no good. First
it was 250 pounds more than last year. Then it was 700 pounds. Then
it was 2000 pounds. Then I saw it was no use: Prometheus was chained
to his rock: read Shelley: read Mrs Browning. Well, well, it was
not to be. _[He rises solemnly]._ Lord Summerhays: I ask you to
excuse me for a few moments. There are times when a man needs to
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