| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: like semaphores; while over against them Mataafa reposes smilingly
obstinate, and their own retainers surround them, frowningly inert.
Into the question of motive I refuse to enter; but if we come to
war in these islands, and with no fresh occasion, it will be a
manufactured war, and one that has been manufactured, against the
grain of opinion, by two foreigners.
For the last and worst of the mistakes on the Laupepa side it would
be unfair to blame any but the king himself. Capable both of
virtuous resolutions and of fits of apathetic obstinacy, His
Majesty is usually the whip-top of competitive advisers; and his
conduct is so unstable as to wear at times an appearance of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: that my father was about to arrive on the following day in Paris.
He had received the letter I had written to him a week before; it
gave him extreme delight; but, notwithstanding the flattering
hopes I had held out of my conversion, he could not implicitly
rely on my statements. He determined therefore to satisfy
himself of my reformation by the evidence of his own senses, and
to regulate his conduct towards me according to his conviction of
my sincerity. He arrived the day after my imprisonment.
"His first visit was to Tiberge, to whose care I begged that he
would address his answer. He could not learn from him either my
present abode or condition: Tiberge merely told him of my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: such as taking the children to the sea or in the
mountains: she could imagine no other motive for leaving
the house in Thirty-ninth Street or their comfortable
quarters at the Wellands' in Newport. After Dallas
had taken his degree she had thought it her duty to
travel for six months; and the whole family had made
the old-fashioned tour through England, Switzerland
and Italy. Their time being limited (no one knew why)
they had omitted France. Archer remembered Dallas's
wrath at being asked to contemplate Mont Blanc
instead of Rheims and Chartres. But Mary and Bill wanted
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