| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: picture with a judicial eye, and announced decisively:
"That?--why, that's a BARKENTINE."
Condy had no need to wait for Blix's report. The demonstration
came far too quickly for that. The red-headed man at his loud
declaration merely glanced in the direction of the chromo and
returned to his enchellados. But he of the black mustache
followed Condy's glance, noted the picture of which he spoke, and
snorted contemptuously. They even heard him mutter beneath his
mustache:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: into which he had unguardedly fallen before dinner, but to set
things right with her by a kindness which would have the air of
friendly civility, and prevent her from running away with wrong
notions about their mutual relation.
If Hetty had known he was there, she would not have cried; and it
would have been better, for then Arthur would perhaps have behaved
as wisely as he had intended. As it was, she started when he
appeared at the end of the side-alley, and looked up at him with
two great drops rolling down her cheeks. What else could he do
but speak to her in a soft, soothing tone, as if she were a
bright-eyed spaniel with a thorn in her foot?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: certain tapping test, which we consider well done if the
individual has succeeded in tapping in 90 squares in 30 seconds,
she did 117 and 129 at two successive trials with only one error
in each. This is next to the best record we have ever seen. Our
puzzle box, which is seldom opened in less than 2 minutes, she
planfully attacked and conquered in 52 seconds. She also rapidly
put it together again, which is an unusual performance. Reaction
times on the antonym test, giving the opposites to words, were
very low; average 1.4 seconds. Her immediate memory for words
was normal, but nothing extraordinary. She gave correctly,
although not quite in logical order, 18 out of 20 items on a
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