| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: distress you hereafter, think I feel the same distress underground,
and for my own sake, forgive me! Come here and kneel down again!
You never harmed me in your life. Nay, if you nurse anger, that
will be worse to remember than my harsh words! Won't you come here
again? Do!'
Heathcliff went to the back of her chair, and leant over, but not
so far as to let her see his face, which was livid with emotion.
She bent round to look at him; he would not permit it: turning
abruptly, he walked to the fireplace, where he stood, silent, with
his back towards us. Mrs. Linton's glance followed him
suspiciously: every movement woke a new sentiment in her. After a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: things in the world than money." This hadn't occurred to her so
long as the young lady had any; but she now added, with a glance at
my letter, that Mr. and Mrs. Pudney doubtless explained their
motives. "It's all in kindness," she continued as she got up.
"Kindness to Miss Anvoy? You took, on the whole, another view of
kindness before her reverses."
My companion smiled with some acidity "Perhaps you're no safer than
the Mulvilles!"
I didn't want her to think that, nor that she should report to the
Pudneys that they had not been happy in their agent; and I well
remember that this was the moment at which I began, with
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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: No man can live long in Samoa and not have his honesty impugned.
But the accusations against Brandeis's veracity are both few and
obscure. I believe he was as straight as his sword. The governors
doubtless issued these orders, but there were plenty besides
Brandeis to suggest them. Every wandering clerk from the firm's
office, every plantation manager, would be dinning the same story
in the native ear. And here again the initial blunder hung about
the neck of Brandeis, a ton's weight. The natives, as well as the
whites, had seen their premier masquerading on a stool in the
office; in the eyes of the natives, as well as in those of the
whites, he must always have retained the mark of servitude from
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