| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: ground. The party had returned to Nice at the beginning of the
winter, but not to the charming villa. They went to an hotel,
where they stayed three months, and then moved to another
establishment, explaining that they had left the first because,
after waiting and waiting, they couldn't get the rooms they wanted.
These apartments, the rooms they wanted, were generally very
splendid; but fortunately they never COULD get them - fortunately,
I mean, for Pemberton, who reflected always that if they had got
them there would have been a still scantier educational fund. What
Morgan said at last was said suddenly, irrelevantly, when the
moment came, in the middle of a lesson, and consisted of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving
from each the best that it has to give. The torrents of Norway
leap down from their mountain home with plentiful cataracts, and
run brief but glorious races to the sea. The streams of England
move smoothly through green fields and beside ancient, sleepy
towns. The Scotch rivers brawl through the open moorland and flash
along steep Highland glens. The rivers of the Alps are born in icy
caves, from which they issue forth with furious, turbid waters; but
when their anger has been forgotten in the slumber of some blue
lake, they flow down more softly to see the vineyards of France and
Italy, the gray castles of Germany, the verdant meadows of Holland.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: land. It was evident that they were impressed; yet
that they were loath to give up without further con-
testing my claim to naval supremacy was also apparent,
for some of their number seemed to be exhorting the
others to a renewal of the conflict.
However, at last they drew slowly away, and the Sari,
which had not decreased her snail-like speed during this,
her first engagement, continued upon her slow, uneven
way.
Presently Perry stuck his head up through the hatch
and hailed me.
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