| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: greate citty laid waste by a cruel enemy; to which was added that
stench that came from some poore creatures' bodies, beds, and
other combustible goods."
It would have been impossible to trace the original course of the
streets, but that some gable, pinnacle, or portion of walls, of
churches, halls, or mansions, indicated where they had stood.
The narrower thoroughfares were completely blocked by rubbish;
massive iron chains, then used to prevent traffic at night in the
streets, were melted, as were likewise iron gates of prisons, and
the hinges of strong doors. Goods stored away in cellars and
subterranean passages of warehouses yet smouldered, emitting foul
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: so rare; the sense of" - he mused a little - "something or other."
I wondered again. "The sense, pray, of want?"
"My dear man, that's just what I want YOU to say!"
Even before he had banged the door I had begun, book in hand, to
prepare myself to say it. I sat up with Vereker half the night;
Corvick couldn't have done more than that. He was awfully clever -
I stuck to that, but he wasn't a bit the biggest of the lot. I
didn't allude to the lot, however; I flattered myself that I
emerged on this occasion from the infancy of art. "It's all
right," they declared vividly at the office; and when the number
appeared I felt there was a basis on which I could meet the great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: honest," she broke out suddenly.
"Not quite honest?" he repeated, caught in a fresh wave of
wonder.
"I mean, in seeming not to trust you. It's come over me
again as we talked that, at heart, I've always KNOWN I
could..."
Her colour rose in a bright wave, and her eyes clung to his
for a swift instant of reminder and appeal. For the same
space of time the past surged up in him confusedly; then a
veil dropped between them.
"Here's Effie now!" she exclaimed.
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