| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: persuasion that I was madly in love with her, and her game, so far
as she was concerned, was played and won. It wasn't until I had
fretted for two days that I realised that I was being used for the
commonest form of excitement possible to a commonplace girl; that
dozens perhaps of young men had played the part of Tantalus at
cousin Sybil's lips. I walked about my room at nights, damning her
and calling her by terms which on the whole she rather deserved,
while Sybil went to sleep pitying "poor old Dick!"
"Damn it!" I said, "I WILL be equal with you."
But I never did equalise the disadvantage, and perhaps it's as well,
for I fancy that sort of revenge cuts both people too much for a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: local expressions, the peculiar language of the peasants, the
smell of the soil, the hamlets, and to the atmosphere itself.
I love the house in which I grew up. From my windows I can see
the Seine, which flows by the side of my garden, on the other
side of the road, almost through my grounds, the great and wide
Seine, which goes to Rouen and Havre, and which is covered with
boats passing to and fro.
On the left, down yonder, lies Rouen, populous Rouen with its
blue roofs massing under pointed, Gothic towers. Innumerable are
they, delicate or broad, dominated by the spire of the cathedral,
full of bells which sound through the blue air on fine mornings,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: rendered him unpopular among the Highland chiefs. The devotion
which he professed was of a morose and fanatical character; his
ambition appeared to be insatiable, and inferior chiefs
complained of his want of bounty and liberality. Add to this,
that although a Highlander, and of a family distinguished for
valour before and since, Gillespie Grumach [GRUMACH--ill-
favored.] (which, from an obliquity in his eyes, was the personal
distinction he bore in the Highlands, where titles of rank are
unknown) was suspected of being a better man in the cabinet than
in the field. He and his tribe were particularly obnoxious to
the M'Donalds and the M'Leans, two numerous septs, who, though
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