| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "Mamma has undertaken Blanche," she wrote, "and I am devoting
myself to Mr. W. It is really very interesting." She told
Bernard all about it in detail, and he also found it interesting;
doubly so, indeed, for it must be confessed that the charming
figure of the mistress of his affections attempting to heal
a great social breach with her light and delicate hands,
divided his attention pretty equally with the distracted,
the distorted, the almost ludicrous, image of his old
friend.
Angela wrote that Gordon had come back to see her the day
after his first visit, and had seemed greatly troubled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: and in good style about the house? I declare I think Sir Philip
would have made a very domestic man, with a woman who knew how to
manage him."
Now these fair critics, in raising their profound edifice of
domestic felicity, did not recollect that the corner-stone was
wanting, and that to receive good company with good cheer, the
means of the banquet ought to have been furnished by Sir Philip,
whose income (dilapidated as it was) was not equal to the display
of the hospitality required, and at the same time to the supply
of the good knight's MENUS PLAISIRS. So, in spite of all that
was so sagely suggested by female friends, Sir Philip carried his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: then?"
"No," said Adam, "but I thought it likely she might be away,
seeing as it's Sunday. But the other young woman--is she at home,
or gone along with Dinah?"
The old woman looked at Adam with a bewildered air.
"Gone along wi' her?" she said. "Eh, Dinah's gone to Leeds, a big
town ye may ha' heared on, where there's a many o' the Lord's
people. She's been gone sin' Friday was a fortnight: they sent
her the money for her journey. You may see her room here," she
went on, opening a door and not noticing the effect of her words
on Adam. He rose and followed her, and darted an eager glance
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