| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: full wind-up of their understanding. "I'll watch with you," said
May Bartram.
CHAPTER II
The fact that she "knew"--knew and yet neither chaffed him nor
betrayed him--had in a short time begun to constitute between them
a goodly bond, which became more marked when, within the year that
followed their afternoon at Weatherend, the opportunities for
meeting multiplied. The event that thus promoted these occasions
was the death of the ancient lady her great-aunt, under whose wing,
since losing her mother, she had to such an extent found shelter,
and who, though but the widowed mother of the new successor to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: Princess of Wales to boot.
As for Lord Antony and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, their very hearts
seemed to stand still with horror at this gratuitous insult. One of
them uttered an exclamation of appeal, the other one of warning, and
instinctively both glanced hurriedly towards the door, whence a slow,
drawly, not unpleasant voice had already been heard.
Alone among those present Marguerite Blakeney and these Comtesse
de Tournay had remained seemingly unmoved. The latter, rigid, erect
and defiant, with one hand still upon her daughter's arm, seemed
the very personification of unbending pride. For the moment Marguerite's
sweet face had become as white as the soft fichu which swathed her throat,
The Scarlet Pimpernel |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: would have had the same import or have been gone about in the same
way. Germany was bound to Tamasese. No honest man would dream of
blaming Knappe because he sought to redeem his country's word. The
path he chose was doubtless that of honour, so far as honour was
still left. But it proved to be the road to ruin.
Fritze, ranking German officer, is understood to have opposed the
measure. His attitude earned him at the time unpopularity among
his country-people on the spot, and should now redound to his
credit. It is to be hoped he extended his opposition to some of
the details. If it were possible to disarm Mataafa at all, it must
be done rather by prestige than force. A party of blue-jackets
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