| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: as I had done for himself just before, came in from the hall.
With this I had the full image of a repetition of what had
already occurred. She saw me as I had seen my own visitant;
she pulled up short as I had done; I gave her something
of the shock that I had received. She turned white,
and this made me ask myself if I had blanched as much.
She stared, in short, and retreated on just MY lines,
and I knew she had then passed out and come round to me
and that I should presently meet her. I remained where I was,
and while I waited I thought of more things than one.
But there's only one I take space to mention. I wondered why
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: it at fall,
Done it ta-year I mean'd, an' runn'd plow thruff it
an' all,
If godamoighty an' parson 'ud nobbut let ma
aloan,
Mea, wi' haate oonderd haacre o' Squoire's an' lond
o' my oan.
XII.
Do godamoighty knaw what a's doing a-taakin' o'
mea?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: terrace to the other end, from which Les Tascherons could be seen.
"You belong to me; I must render account to God for your sick soul."
"Give me time to recover from my depression," she said to him.
"Your depression comes from injurious meditation," he replied,
quickly.
"Yes," she said, with the simplicity of a grief which has reached the
point of making no attempt at concealment.
"I see plainly that you have fallen into the gulf of apathy," he
cried. "If there is a degree of physical suffering at which all sense
of modesty expires, there is also a degree of moral suffering in which
all vigor of soul is lost; I know that."
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