| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: even under the shadow of the possibility that it was studied.
For if it occurred to me that I might occasionally excite
suspicion by the little outbreaks of my sharper passion for them,
so too I remember wondering if I mightn't see a queerness
in the traceable increase of their own demonstrations.
They were at this period extravagantly and preternaturally fond
of me; which, after all, I could reflect, was no more than a
graceful response in children perpetually bowed over and hugged.
The homage of which they were so lavish succeeded, in truth,
for my nerves, quite as well as if I never appeared to myself,
as I may say, literally to catch them at a purpose in it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "Please don't mind that," she murmured. "I know it 's true
that she is tired."
"Mind it, dear lady?" cried the young man. "I delight in it.
It 's just what I like."
"Ah, she 's very peculiar!" sighed Mrs. Vivian.
"She is strange--yes. But I think I understand her a little."
"You must come back to-morrow, then."
"I hope to have many to-morrows!" cried Bernard as he took his departure.
CHAPTER XXIII
And he had them in fact. He called the next day at the same hour,
and he found the mother and the daughter together in their pretty salon.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
And loue thee after. One more, and that's the last.
So sweet, was ne're so fatall. I must weepe,
But they are cruell Teares: This sorrow's heauenly,
It strikes, where it doth loue. She wakes
Des. Who's there? Othello?
Othel. I Desdemona
Des. Will you come to bed, my Lord?
Oth. Haue you pray'd to night, Desdemon?
Des. I my Lord
Oth. If you bethinke your selfe of any Crime
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