| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: and she took a long, last look up and down the noble sala. "Oh, it's
a magnificent house!" she murmured; after which I pushed her forward.
When we had entered the parlor Miss Tita told me that she should now
be able to manage, and at the same moment the little red-haired
donna came to meet her mistress. Miss Tita's idea was evidently
to get her aunt immediately back to bed. I confess that in spite
of this urgency I was guilty of the indiscretion of lingering;
it held me there to think that I was nearer the documents I coveted--
that they were probably put away somewhere in the faded, unsociable room.
The place had indeed a bareness which did not suggest hidden treasures;
there were no dusky nooks nor curtained corners, no massive cabinets
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: growth of the two plants. We can sometimes see the reason why one tree
will not take on another, from differences in their rate of growth, in the
hardness of their wood, in the period of the flow or nature of their sap,
&c.; but in a multitude of cases we can assign no reason whatever. Great
diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other
herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to
widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting
together. As in hybridisation, so with grafting, the capacity is limited
by systematic affinity, for no one has been able to graft trees together
belonging to quite distinct families; and, on the other hand, closely
allied species, and varieties of the same species, can usually, but not
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