| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: watched him take twenty steps and then slowly return.
"I have invited Mrs. Westgate and Miss Alden to Branches,"
he said, "and this evening I shall name a day."
"And shall you invite your mother and your sisters to meet them?"
"Explicitly!"
"That will set the duchess off," said Percy Beaumont.
"I suspect she will come."
"She may do as she pleases."
Beaumont looked at Lord Lambeth. "You do really propose to marry
the little sister, then?"
"I like the way you talk about it!" cried the young man.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: bands; particularly that part where the throng of people, pressing
close together, gaze at King Herod in his golden crown or at Anthony
leading his goat.
Presently the old woman crawled, grunting, from the storeroom,
dragging after her an old-fashioned saddle with broken stirrups, worn
leather holsters, and saddle-cloth, once red, with gilt embroidery and
copper disks.
"Here's a stupid woman," thought Ivan Ivanovitch. "She'll be dragging
Ivan Nikiforovitch out and airing him next."
Ivan Ivanovitch was not so far wrong in his surmise. Five minutes
later, Ivan Nikiforovitch's nankeen trousers appeared, and took nearly
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: when the fostering care of a father, or the protection of a
brother, is considered a matter of necessity? Had she now
come, after an already long journey, from the provinces of
Western Russia? Was she merely going to Nijni-Nov-
gorod, or was the end of her travels beyond the eastern
frontiers of the empire? Would some relation, some
friend, await her arrival by the train? Or was it
not more probable, on the contrary, that she would
find herself as much isolated in the town as she was in this
compartment? It was probable.
In fact, the effect of habits contracted in solitude was
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