| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: She was conscious now of the improvement of not having to take her
present and her future at once. They were about as much as she
could manage when taken separate.
She had, none the less, to give her mind steadily to what Mr. Mudge
had again written her about, the idea of her applying for a
transfer to an office quite similar--she couldn't yet hope for a
place in a bigger--under the very roof where he was foreman, so
that, dangled before her every minute of the day, he should see
her, as he called it, "hourly," and in a part, the far N.W.
district, where, with her mother, she would save on their two rooms
alone nearly three shillings. It would be far from dazzling to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: the latter. As numbers are the determining cause of victory,
each people ought of course to strive by all the means in its
power to bring the greatest possible number of men into the
field. When it was possible to enlist a kind of troops superior
to all others, such as the Swiss infantry or the French horse of
the sixteenth century, it was not thought necessary to raise very
large armies; but the case is altered when one soldier is as
efficient as another.
The same cause which begets this new want also supplies
means of satisfying it; for, as I have already observed, when men
are all alike, they are all weak, and the supreme power of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: between them seemed to have grown wide and dense, as if neither
eyes nor words nor hands could ever meet again. When she spoke
it was to say something evasive and unimportant, and her voice
was as one from the grave.
In truth, Philip had given Emilia his heart to play with at
Neuchatel, that he might beguile her from an attachment they
had all regretted. The device succeeded. The toy once in her
hand, the passionate girl had kept it, had clung to him with
all her might; he could not shake her off. Nor was this the
worst, for to his dismay he found himself responding to her
love with a self-abandonment of ardor for which all former
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