| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: particular.
For a little while he thought confusedly of the collapse of
his expedition into the secret places of his own heart with
Dr. Martineau, and then his prepossession with Miss Grammont
resumed possession of his mind. Dr. Martineau was forgotten.
Section 2
For the better part of forty hours, Sir Richmond had either
been talking to Miss Grammont, or carrying on imaginary
conversations with her in her absence, or sleeping and
dreaming dreams in which she never failed to play a part,
even if at times it was an altogether amazing and incongruous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: present. How had he wandered there? and how long - oh,
heavens! how long had he been about it? He pulled out his
watch; and found that but three minutes had elapsed. It
seemed too bright a thing to be believed. He glanced at the
church clock; and sure enough, it marked an hour four minutes
faster than the watch.
Of all that he endured, M'Guire declares that pang was the
most desolate. Till then, he had had one friend, one
counsellor, in whom he plenarily trusted; by whose
advertisement, he numbered the minutes that remained to him
of life; on whose sure testimony, he could tell when the time
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: to what I have mentioned of the Port of London, being bounded by
the Naze on the Essex shore, and the North Foreland on the Kentish
shore, which some people, guided by the present usage of the Custom
House, may pretend is not so, to answer such objectors. The true
state of that case stands thus:
"(1) The clause taken from the Act of Parliament establishing the
extent of the Port of London, and published in some of the books of
rates, is this:
"'To prevent all future differences and disputes touching the
extent and limits of the Port of London, the said port is declared
to extend, and be accounted from the promontory or point called the
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