| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: he advanced to the upper end with an air of more confidence than
grace, and would have gone close up to Argyle's person before
speaking, had not the latter waved his hand, as a signal to him
to stop short. Captain Dalgetty did so accordingly, and having
made his military congee with easy confidence, he thus accosted
the Marquis: "Give you good morrow, my lord--or rather I should
say, good even; BESO A USTED LOS MANOS, as the Spaniard says."
"Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the
Marquis, in a tone which was intended to interrupt the offensive
familiarity of the soldier.
"That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: Imagine being Venning and having to get into bed with Susan!
But the really repulsive thing is that they feel nothing at all--
about what I do when I have a hot bath. They're gross, they're absurd,
they're utterly intolerable!"
So saying, and drawing no reply from Hewet, he proceeded to think
about himself, about science, about Cambridge, about the Bar,
about Helen and what she thought of him, until, being very tired,
he was nodding off to sleep.
Suddenly Hewet woke him up.
"How d'you know what you feel, Hirst?"
"Are you in love?" asked Hirst. He put in his eyeglass.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: important points were acknowledgment of our independence, settlement of
boundaries, freedom of fishing in the neighborhood of the Canadian coast.
We had agreed to reach no settlement with England separately from France
and Spain. They were our recent friends. England, our recent enemy, sent
Richard Oswald as her peace commissioner. This private gentleman had
placed his fortune at our disposal during the war, and was Franklin's
friend. Lord Shelburne wrote Franklin that if this was not satisfactory,
to say so, and name any one he preferred. But Oswald was satisfactory;
and David Hartley, another friend of Franklin's and also a sympathizer
with our Revolution, was added; and in these circumstances and by these
men the Treaty was made. To France we broke our promise to reach no
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