| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: than the Malakula, and, for that matter, the finest in the
Solomons. She was just the thing for recruits, and she was right
on the spot. Then he realized that for such a craft to sell at
auction for fifty-five pounds meant that there was small chance for
saving her.
"But how did it happen?" he asked. "Weren't they rather quick in
selling the Martha?"
"Had to. You know the reef at Poonga-Poonga. She's not worth
tuppence on it if any kind of a sea kicks up, and it's ripe for a
nor'wester any moment now. The crowd abandoned her completely.
Didn't even dream of auctioning her. Morgan and Raff persuaded
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: of hard and solemn trial, she felt herself no longer so
inadequate to cope with Roger Chillingworth as on that night,
abased by sin and half-maddened by the ignominy
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that was still new, when they had talked together in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: extremely chilling; he might even have thought ill of life. But it so
chanced that he was in one of those rare moments when happy inward
sensations make a man oblivious of discomfort. In hastening his steps
he obeyed a more mechanical impulse, and truth (so essential in a
history of manners and morals) compels us to say that he was thinking
of neither rain nor gout.
In former days there was in the Cloister, on the side towards the
Grand'Rue, a cluster of houses forming a Close and belonging to the
cathedral, where several of the dignitaries of the Chapter lived.
After the confiscation of ecclesiastical property the town had turned
the passage through this close into a narrow street, called the Rue de
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