| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: Let us leave the mothers to their business and return to the
youngsters. It is not without a certain surprise that we see the
little Lycosae, at the first moment of their emancipation, hasten
to ascend the heights. Destined to live on the ground, amidst the
short grass, and afterwards to settle in the permanent abode, a
pit, they start by being enthusiastic acrobats. Before descending
to the low levels, their normal dwelling-place, they affect lofty
altitudes.
To rise higher and ever higher is their first need. I have not, it
seems, exhausted the limit of their climbing-instinct even with a
nine-foot pole, suitably furnished with branches to facilitate the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: once, and put him out of suspense - so let me go.'
'But don't give him a flat denial; he has no idea of such a thing,
and it would offend him greatly: say you have no thoughts of
matrimony at present - '
'But I have thoughts of it.'
'Or that you desire a further acquaintance.'
'But I don't desire a further acquaintance - quite the contrary.'
And without waiting for further admonitions I left the room and
went to seek Mr. Boarham. He was walking up and down the drawing-
room, humming snatches of tunes and nibbling the end of his cane.
'My dear young lady,' said he, bowing and smirking with great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: plan for, and what courtesy and respect they show me! See
how the Queen writes!''
I knew that it was balm and wine to him, how she wrote.
The matter in question was nothing more or less than an
amicable great meeting between the two sovereigns and the
King of Portugal, the wisest subjects of both attending.
A line was to be drawn from top to bottom of Ocean-Sea,
and Portugal might discover to the cast of it, and Spain to
the west! The Holy Father would confirm, and so the
mighty spoil be justly divided. Every great geographer
should come into counsel. The greatest of them all, the
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