| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: in your life!" At the sound of my voice and that of the opening of
the door her impatience broke into audible joy. She sprang up,
recognising me, always holding me, and gleefully cried to a
gentleman who was arrested in the doorway by the sight of me: "He
has come back, he has come back, and you should have heard what he
says of me!" The gentleman was Geoffrey Dawling, and I thought it
best to let him hear on the spot. "How beautiful she is, my dear
man--but how extraordinarily beautiful! More beautiful at this
hour than ever, ever before!"
It gave them almost equal pleasure and made Dawling blush to his
eyes; while this in turn produced, in spite of deepened
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: pronounce her guilty of carelessness resulting in the death of
the merchant, which she did not desire.' This is the chief
point."
"Yes; but we ought to have known that ourselves. It was our
mistake."
"And now the fourth point," the advocate continued. "The form of
the answer given by the jury contained an evident contradiction.
Maslova is accused of wilfully poisoning Smelkoff, her one object
being that of cupidity, the only motive to commit murder she
could have had. The jury in their verdict acquit her of the
intent to rob, or participation in the stealing of valuables,
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: sticking or a bill in a window or a placard-plastered motor-car or
an argumentative group of people outside a public-house or a
sluggish movement towards the schoolroom or village hall, there was
scarcely a sign that a great empire was revising its destinies. Now
and then one saw a canvasser on a doorstep. For the most part
people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible
confidence in the stability of the universe. At times one felt a
little absurd with one's flutter of colours and one's air of saving
the country.
My opponent was a quite undistinguished Major-General who relied
upon his advocacy of Protection, and was particularly anxious we
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