| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: consideration that is to be given to our apprehensions of a
quarrel which may bring on the most terrible consequences? Good
God! of what can men's hearts be made, who can thus dally with
the agony of others?"
Sir Philip Forester was moved; he laid aside the mocking tone in
which he had hitherto spoken.
"Dear Lady Bothwell," he said, taking her reluctant hand, "we are
both wrong. You are too deeply serious; I, perhaps, too little
so. The dispute I had with Major Falconer was of no earthly
consequence. Had anything occurred betwixt us that ought to have
been settled PAR VOIE DU FAIT, as we say in France, neither of us
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: character of Jimson and his music arose in bulk before the mind
of Gideon. What more likely than Jimson's arrival with a grand
piano (say, at Padwick), and his residence in a houseboat alone
with the unfinished score of Orange Pekoe? His subsequent
disappearance, leaving nothing behind but an empty piano case, it
might be more difficult to account for. And yet even that was
susceptible of explanation. For, suppose Jimson had gone mad over
a fugal passage, and had thereupon destroyed the accomplice of
his infamy, and plunged into the welcome river? What end, on the
whole, more probable for a modern musician?
'By Jove, I'll do it,' cried Gideon. 'Jimson is the boy!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: staring at the ground. His mind sped into the future,
and saw there enacted in years of leisure the scenes o
repentance that would ensue from this work of haste
That they were married he had instantly decided. Why
had it been so mysteriously managed? It had become
known that she had had a fearful journey to Bath, owing
to her miscalculating the distance: that the horse had
broken down, and that she had been more than two
days getting there. It was not Bathsheba's way to do
things furtively. With all her faults, she was candour
itself. Could she have been entrapped? The union
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