| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: continued pacing from wall to wall with disconnected gestures,
clasping her hands, stretching forth her arms, throwing back her
head as in appeal to heaven. In these disordered movements the
beauty and grace of the woman showed more clearly; but there was a
light in her eye that struck on me unpleasantly; and when I had
looked on awhile in silence, and seemingly unobserved, I turned
tail as I had come, and groped my way back again to my own chamber.
By the time Felipe brought my supper and lights, my nerve was
utterly gone; and, had the lad been such as I was used to seeing
him, I should have kept him (even by force had that been necessary)
to take off the edge from my distasteful solitude. But on Felipe,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: I have been to England and Holland."
"Ah, you have been to Europe?" cried the Baroness. "Why did n't you
come and see me? But it 's better, after all, this way," she said.
They were entering the house; she paused and looked round her.
"I see you have arranged your house--your beautiful house--in the--
in the Dutch taste!"
"The house is very old," remarked Mr. Wentworth.
"General Washington once spent a week here."
"Oh, I have heard of Washington," cried the Baroness.
"My father used to tell me of him."
Mr. Wentworth was silent a moment, and then, "I found he was very well known
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: I cleft his beaver with a downright blow.
That this is true, father, behold his blood.
[Showing his bloody sword.]
MONTAGUE.
And, brother, here 's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,
[To York, showing his.]
Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd.
RICHARD.
Speak thou for me, and tell them what I did.
[Throwing down the Duke of Somerset's head.]
YORK.
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