| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Ask me no more.
Ask me no more: what answer should I give?
I love not hollow cheek or faded eye:
Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die!
Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live;
Ask me no more.
Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are sealed:
I strove against the stream and all in vain:
Let the great river take me to the main:
No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
Ask me no more.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: e fleur de peau, and these reasons could only be cruel ones, such
as would make him dearer to those who already were fond of him.
"You excite my envy. I have my reserves, I discriminate - but I
love him," Paul said in a moment. "And seeing him for the first
time this way is a great event for me."
"How momentous - how magnificent!" cried the girl. "How delicious
to bring you together!"
"Your doing it - that makes it perfect," our friend returned.
"He's as eager as you," she went on. "But it's so odd you
shouldn't have met."
"It's not really so odd as it strikes you. I've been out of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: --Leave we then the breeches in the taylor's hands, with my father standing
over him with his cane, reading him as he sat at work a lecture upon the
latus clavus, and pointing to the precise part of the waistband, where he
was determined to have it sewed on.--
Leave we my mother--(truest of all the Poco-curante's of her sex!)--
careless about it, as about every thing else in the world which concerned
her;--that is,--indifferent whether it was done this way or that,--provided
it was but done at all.--
Leave we Slop likewise to the full profits of all my dishonours.--
Leave we poor Le Fever to recover, and get home from Marseilles as he can.-
-And last of all,--because the hardest of all--
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