| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: back in a moment," she said, coming into the room again.
"She has gone to see a friend who lives just beside us.
We don't mind about Siena now," she added, softly.
Bernard understood her--understood this to be a retraction
of the request she had made of him at Baden.
"Dear little woman," he said to himself, "she wants to marry
her daughter still--only now she wants to marry her to me!"
He wished to show her that he understood her, and he was on
the point of seizing her hand, to do he did n't know what--
to hold it, to press it, to kiss it--when he heard the sharp
twang of the bell at the door of the little apartment.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: instance, or Pity. I won't mention any more. They are not far
to seek. Shouted with perseverance, with ardour, with
conviction, these two by their sound alone have set whole nations
in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our
whole social fabric. There's "virtue" for you if you like! . . .
Of course the accent must be attended to. The right accent.
That's very important. The capacious lung, the thundering or the
tender vocal chords. Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever.
He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination.
Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for
engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Below him flowed the roaring waters of the Angara.
Ogareff took a match from his pocket, struck it and lighted
a small bunch of tow, impregnated with priming powder,
which he threw into the river.
It was by the orders of Ivan Ogareff that the torrents of
mineral oil had been thrown on the surface of the Angara!
There are numerous naphtha springs above Irkutsk, on the
right bank, between the suburb of Poshkavsk and the town.
Ogareff had resolved to employ this terrible means to carry
fire into Irkutsk. He therefore took possession of the im-
mense reservoirs which contained the combustible liquid.
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