| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: you want to know," he said deliberately. Then
added in a tone of wonder: "The whole crew!"
"And very bad?"
"And very bad," he repeated. His eyes were
roaming all over the ship. "Heavens! What's
that?"
"That," I said, glancing aft, "is Mr. Burns, my
chief officer."
Mr. Burns with his moribund head nodding on
the stalk of his lean neck was a sight for any one
to exclaim at. The surgeon asked:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: of most Germans whom authors bring upon their scene. Like a man who
does nothing frivolously, he was sitting squarely at the banker's
table and eating with that Teutonic appetite so celebrated throughout
Europe, saying, in fact, a conscientious farewell to the cookery of
the great Careme.
To do honor to his guest the master of the house had invited a few
intimate friends, capitalists or merchants, and several agreeable and
pretty women, whose pleasant chatter and frank manners were in harmony
with German cordiality. Really, if you could have seen, as I saw, this
joyous gathering of persons who had drawn in their commercial claws,
and were speculating only on the pleasures of life, you would have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: right hand. Thorpe had never dreamed of thinking ill
of his wife's friendship, even when her indifference
to what he thought had been most taken for granted.
Now that this was all changed, and the amazing new glory
of a lover had enveloped him, he had a distinct delight
in watching the myriad charming phases of her kind manner,
half-sisterly, half-motherly, toward the grave-faced
young man. It was all a part of the delicious change
which these past few days had wrought in her, this warm
and supple softness of mien, of eye and smile and voice.
But how the Duke, if really he had had a chance to marry Edith,
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