| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: He put down his gun and ran to her assistance. She had
raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been
twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand.
The gentleman offered his services; and perceiving that her
modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary,
took her up in his arms without farther delay, and carried
her down the hill. Then passing through the garden,
the gate of which had been left open by Margaret, he bore her
directly into the house, whither Margaret was just arrived,
and quitted not his hold till he had seated her in a chair
in the parlour.
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: prau, was, in his own words, 'familiar with the locality.' The
huge Frenchman, walking up and down the room with his stumps in the
pockets of his jacket, stopped short in surprise. 'COMMENT?
BAMTZ! BAMTZ!'
"He had run across him several times in his life. He exclaimed:
'BAMTZ! MAIS JE NE CONNAIS QUE CA!' And he applied such a
contemptuously indecent epithet to Bamtz that when, later, he
alluded to him as 'UNE CHIFFE' (a mere rag) it sounded quite
complimentary. 'We can do with him what we like,' he asserted
confidently. 'Oh, yes. Certainly we must hasten to pay a visit to
that - ' (another awful descriptive epithet quite unfit for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Yet the natives keep their holes at 90 degrees or even 100 degrees.
This was interrupted days ago by household labours. Since then I
have had and (I tremble to write it, but it does seem as if I had)
beaten off an influenza. The cold is exquisite. Valentine still
in bed. The proofs of the first part of the MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
begin to come in; soon you shall have it in the pamphlet form; and
I hope you will like it. The second part will not be near so good;
but there - we can but do as it'll do with us. I have every reason
to believe this winter has done me real good, so far as it has
gone; and if I carry out my scheme for next winter, and succeeding
years, I should end by being a tower of strength. I want you to
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