| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: gazing at the other buildings, and so perceived me still on the steps.
With a gesture of remembering something he crossed back again.
"You've not seen Miss Rieppe?"
"Why, of course I haven't!" I exclaimed. Was everybody going to ask me
that?
"Well, something's up, old boy. Charley has got the launch away with
him--and I'll bet he's got her away with him, too. Charley lied this
morning."
"Is lying, then, so rare with him?"
"Why, it rather is, you know. But I've come to be able to spot him when
he does it. Those little bulgy eyes of his look at you particularly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: opened and, in a travelling costume of long boots, big sheepskin
cap, and a short coat girt with a leather belt, the Mr. V. S. (of
noble extraction), a man of about thirty-five, appeared with an
air of perplexity on his open and mustached countenance. I got
up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the
right shade of consideration demanded by his noble blood and his
confidential position. His face cleared up in a wonderful way.
It appeared that, notwithstanding my uncle's earnest assurances,
the good fellow had remained in doubt of our understanding each
other. He imagined I would talk to him in some foreign language.
I was told that his last words on getting into the sledge to come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: own time unprovided for.
"Of course I'll drive with Papa--I'm sure Newland
will find something to do," May said, in a tone that
gently reminded her husband of his lack of response. It
was a cause of constant distress to Mrs. Welland that
her son-in-law showed so little foresight in planning his
days. Often already, during the fortnight that he had
passed under her roof, when she enquired how he
meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered
paradoxically: "Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it
instead of spending it--" and once, when she and May
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