| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: well as this town. You may as well say I must not go out of my house
if it is on fire as that I must not go out of the town I was born in when
it is infected with the plague. I was born in England, and have a right
to live in it if I can.
Thomas. But you know every vagrant person may by the laws of
England be taken up, and passed back to their last legal settlement.
John. But how shall they make me vagrant? I desire only to travel
on, upon my lawful occasions.
Thomas. What lawful occasions can we pretend to travel, or rather
wander upon? They will not be put off with words.
John. Is not flying to save our lives a lawful occasion?
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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: the present sources of his happiness that he had as regards this
matter of his relations with Gertrude a deliciously good conscience.
His own deportment seemed to him suffused with the beauty of virtue--
a form of beauty that he admired with the same vivacity with which
he admired all other forms.
"I think that if you marry," said Mr. Wentworth presently,
"it will conduce to your happiness."
"Sicurissimo!" Felix exclaimed; and then, arresting his brush, he looked at
his uncle with a smile. "There is something I feel tempted to say to you.
May I risk it?"
Mr. Wentworth drew himself up a little. "I am very safe;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: For hours upon your knee;
You've never smiled nor turned your head;
What can you, sister, see?"
"Come hither, Jane, look down the field;
How dense a mist creeps on!
The path, the hedge, are both concealed,
Ev'n the white gate is gone
No landscape through the fog I trace,
No hill with pastures green;
All featureless is Nature's face.
All masked in clouds her mien.
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