| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: or a bench fit for use. I would have everything as complete
as possible in the country, shrubberies and flower-gardens,
and rustic seats innumerable: but it must all be done
without my care. Henry is different; he loves to be doing."
Edmund was sorry to hear Miss Crawford, whom he was much
disposed to admire, speak so freely of her uncle.
It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced,
till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put
the matter by for the present.
"Mr. Bertram," said she, "I have tidings of my harp at last.
I am assured that it is safe at Northampton; and there it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: de river.' Ah, oui, to-morrow, up de river, and das dam Sitka
Charley mak me pay for de poling-boat five hundred dollar. Dam!"
Thus it was, when Jack Coughran unburdened himself next day, that
Dawson fell to wondering who was this David Payne, and in what way
his existence bore upon Karen Sayther's. But that very day, as
Pierre Fontaine had said, Mrs. Sayther and her barbaric crew of
voyageurs towed up the east bank to Klondike City, shot across to
the west bank to escape the bluffs, and disappeared amid the maze
of islands to the south.
II
"Oui, madame, thees is de place. One, two, t'ree island below
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: meditate upon the unruliness of mankind and the thankless nature
of his task; or whether he had gone there simply to bathe in a
particularly clear pool which was a feature of the place, give
himself up to the enjoyment of a certain fruit which grew in
profusion there and indulge for a time in a scrupulous
performance of religious exercises, his absence from the
Settlement was a fact of the utmost gravity. It is true that the
prestige of a long-unquestioned rulership and the long-settled
mental habits of the people had caused the captives to be taken
straight to Belarab's stockade as a matter of course. Belarab, at
a distance, could still outweigh the power on the spot of Tengga,
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