| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: conduct, if found out, would be blamed much or at all, but he did
not consider what Katusha was now going through, and what was
going to happen to her.
He saw that Schonbock guessed his relations to her and this
flattered his vanity.
"Ah, I see how it is you have taken such a sudden fancy to your
aunts that you have been living nearly a week with them,"
Schonbock remarked when he had seen Katusha. "Well, I don't
wonder--should have done the same. She's charming." Nekhludoff
was also thinking that though it was a pity to go away before
having fully gratified the cravings of his love for her, yet the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: beside him on the table. But he did not open it. He held it
in his hand and said the thing he had had in mind to say all
that evening. "I do not think that I shall stir up my motives
any more for a time. Better to go on into the west country
cooling my poor old brain in these wide shadows of the past."
"I can prescribe nothing better," said Dr. Martineau.
"Incidentally, we may be able to throw a little more light on
one or two of your minor entanglements."
"I don't want to think of them, said Sir Richmond. "Let me
get right away from everything. Until my skin has grown
again."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: with your light.'
'It is striking four,' I answered. 'You want a candle to take up-
stairs: you might have lit one at this fire.'
'No, I don't wish to go up-stairs,' he said. 'Come in, and kindle
ME a fire, and do anything there is to do about the room.'
'I must blow the coals red first, before I can carry any,' I
replied, getting a chair and the bellows
He roamed to and fro, meantime, in a state approaching distraction;
his heavy sighs succeeding each other so thick as to leave no space
for common breathing between.
'When day breaks I'll send for Green,' he said; 'I wish to make
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