| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: after seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our
meeting yesterday. Are you much acquainted with Mr. Darcy?"
"As much as I ever wish to be," cried Elizabeth very warmly. "I
have spent four days in the same house with him, and I think him
very disagreeable."
"I have no right to give MY opinion," said Wickham, "as to his
being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I
have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is
impossible for ME to be impartial. But I believe your opinion of
him would in general astonish-- and perhaps you would not
express it quite so strongly anywhere else. Here you are in your
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: hostility to all other English visitors had not rendered that district
impossible.
The intellectual and aesthetic fellowship of Miss Winchelsea and
the scholarly young man passed insensibly towards a deeper feeling.
The exuberant Fanny did her best to keep pace with their recondite
admiration by playing her "beautiful," with vigour, and saying "Oh!
LET'S go," with enormous appetite whenever a new place of interest
was mentioned. But Helen developed a certain want of sympathy
towards the end, that disappointed Miss Winchelsea a little. She
refused to "see anything" in the face of Beatrice Cenci--Shelley's
Beatrice Cenci!--in the Barberini gallery; and one day, when they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: resigned their counting-house desks, drawn upon their savings, and
gone Klondiking. And now they were feeling the rough edge of the
country. Grubless, spiritless, with a lust for home in their
hearts, they had been staked by the P. C. Company to cut wood for
its steamers, with the promise at the end of a passage home.
Disregarding the possibilities of the ice-run, they had fittingly
demonstrated their inefficiency by their choice of the island on
which they located. Montana Kid, though possessing little
knowledge of the break-up of a great river, looked about him
dubiously, and cast yearning glances at the distant bank where the
towering bluffs promised immunity from all the ice of the
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