| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: the picturesqueness, of England; and poor Bessie Alden, like many
a Yankee maiden, was terribly at the mercy of picturesqueness.
"I have often wished I were at Newport again," said the young man.
"Those days I spent at your sister's were awfully jolly."
"We enjoyed them very much; I hope your father is better."
"Oh, dear, yes. When I got to England, he was out grouse shooting.
It was what you call in America a gigantic fraud. My mother had got nervous.
My three weeks at Newport seemed like a happy dream."
"America certainly is very different from England," said Bessie.
"I hope you like England better, eh?" Lord Lambeth
rejoined almost persuasively.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of a great ape appeared amidst the foliage. For a moment the
creature eyed them, and then from its throat rose a loud scream
of recognition and of joy, and a moment later the beast had
leaped to the ground, followed by a score of bulls like himself,
and was waddling toward them, shouting in the primordial tongue
of the anthropoid:
"Tarzan has returned! Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!"
It was Akut, and instantly he commenced leaping and bounding
about the trio, uttering hideous shrieks and mouthings that
to any other human beings might have indicated the most
ferocious rage; but these three knew that the king of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Just Alan," said his master.
"Weary winds! that's sayrious," cried Robin. "I'll try Andie, then;
Andie'll be the best."
"It seems it's quite a big business," I observed.
"Mr. Balfour, there's no end to it," said Stewart.
"There was a name your clerk mentioned," I went on: "Hoseason. That
must be my man, I think: Hoseason, of the brig COVENANT. Would you
set your trust on him?"
"He didnae behave very well to you and Alan," said Mr. Stewart; "but my
mind of the man in general is rather otherwise. If he had taken Alan
on board his ship on an agreement, it's my notion he would have proved
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