| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: subscribers. The author's real misfortune was that subscribers
were so wretchedly literal. When they tastelessly enquired why
publication hadn't ensued I was tempted to ask who in the world had
ever been so published. Nature herself had brought him out in
voluminous form, and the money was simply a deposit on borrowing
the work.
CHAPTER V
I was doubtless often a nuisance to my friends in those years; but
there were sacrifices I declined to make, and I never passed the
hat to George Gravener. I never forgot our little discussion in
Ebury Street, and I think it stuck in my throat to have to treat
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: would break through all their glozings. He had a hearty vulgar
good-humor that was irrepressible. His very jokes made his
sensitive daughters shudder; and he persisted in wearing his
blue cotton coat of a morning, dining at two o'clock, and
having a "bit of sausage with his tea."
He was doomed, however, to share the unpopularity of his
family. He found his old comrades gradually growing cold and
civil to him; no longer laughing at his jokes; and now and then
throwing out a fling at "some people," and a hint about "quality
binding." This both nettled and perplexed the honest butcher;
and his wife and daughters, with the consummate policy of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: and all his people--by the time you come again there shall
be a church!''
``Let me ponder it yet a while,'' answered the other.
He was thoughtful when he went back to the _Nina_.
Vicente Pinzon, too, was anxious for light. ``This ship
is crowded to sinking! If we meet wretched weather, or if
sickness break out, returning, we shall be in bad case!''
Roderigo Sanchez also had his word. ``Is it not very important,
senor, that we should get the tidings to the Sovereigns?
And we have now just this one small ship, and so
far to go, and all manner of dangers!''
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