| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: elect (for the present dignitaries go out of office on the 1st of
November). On the left hand of the present Lady Mayoress sat the
Lord Mayor-ELECT, then I came with my husband on my left hand in
very conjugal style.
There were three tables the whole length of the hall, and that at
which we were placed went across at the head. When we are placed,
the herald stands behind the Lord Mayor and cries: "My Lords,
Ladies, and Gentlemen, pray silence, for grace." Then the chaplain
in his gown, goes behind the Lord Mayor and says grace. After the
second course two large gold cups, nearly two feet high, are placed
before the Mayor and Mayoress. The herald then cries with a loud
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: from the heated surface.
In such a country the fate of the Spanish settlement was
soon decided; the dryness of the climate during the greater
part of the year, and the occasional hostile attacks of the
wandering Indians, compelled the colonists to desert their
half-finished buildings. The style, however, in which they
were commenced shows the strong and liberal hand of Spain
in the old time. The result of all the attempts to colonize this
side of America south of 41 degs., has been miserable. Port
Famine expresses by its name the lingering and extreme
sufferings of several hundred wretched people, of whom one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Eugenia observed him leaving the house with Lizzie;
in her present mood the fact seemed a contribution to her
irritated conviction that he had several precious qualities.
"Even that mal-elevee little girl," she reflected, "makes him
do what she wishes."
She had been sitting just within one of the long windows that opened upon
the piazza; but very soon after Acton had gone away she got up abruptly,
just when the talkative gentleman from Boston was asking her what she
thought of the "moral tone" of that city. On the piazza she encountered
Clifford Wentworth, coming round from the other side of the house.
She stopped him; she told him she wished to speak to him.
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