| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: room.' They laid their hands on him. Having
had a glass or two, Mr. Swaffer's foreigner tried
to expostulate: was ejected forcibly: got a black
eye.
"I believe he felt the hostility of his human sur-
roundings. But he was tough--tough in spirit,
too, as well as in body. Only the memory of the
sea frightened him, with that vague terror that is
left by a bad dream. His home was far away; and
he did not want now to go to America. I had often
explained to him that there is no place on earth
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: There was a queer change in him--a sudden lofty
independence--a sudden loathing of himself. He knew now
that it was not in him to do good work in the world, but
at least he would pay his own way. He had been a mass of
vanity and now he was so mean in his own eyes that he
shrank from the passers-by. Perhaps the long strain had
damaged the gray matter of the brain, or some nervous
centre--I do not know what change a physician would have
found in him, but the man was changed.
A clerk was needed in a provision shop on Green
Street. George placed himself in the line of dirty,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: give is possibly worse. For one blunder the chief justice is only
so far responsible, in that he was not present where it seems he
should have been, when it was made. He had nothing to do with the
silly proscription of the Mataafas; he has always disliked the
measure; and it occurred to him at last that he might get rid of
this dangerous absurdity and at the same time reap a further
advantage. Let Mataafa leave Malie for any other district in
Samoa; it should be construed as an act of submission and the
confiscation and proscription instantly recalled. This was
certainly well devised; the government escaped from their own false
position, and by the same stroke lowered the prestige of their
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