| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt
me and make me his legatee. "It would, indeed, be a relief," I
thought, "if I had ever so small an independency; I never can bear
being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester, or sitting like a second
Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me. I will write
to Madeira the moment I get home, and tell my uncle John I am going
to be married, and to whom: if I had but a prospect of one day
bringing Mr. Rochester an accession of fortune, I could better
endure to be kept by him now." And somewhat relieved by this idea
(which I failed not to execute that day), I ventured once more to
meet my master's and lover's eye, which most pertinaciously sought
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: and gnashed their tusks at the assembly below. Long narrow
windows lighted the banqueting room on both sides, filled up with
stained glass, through which the sun emitted a dusky and
discoloured light. A banner, which tradition averred to have been
taken from the English at the battle of Sark, waved over the
chair in which Ellieslaw presided, as if to inflame the courage
of the guests, by reminding them of ancient victories over their
neighbours. He himself, a portly figure, dressed on this occasion
with uncommon care, and with features, which, though of a stern
and sinister expression, might well be termed handsome, looked
the old feudal baron extremely well. Sir Frederick Langley was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: There could be no question for her of improvement, of
strengthening. She was faced with the fact until the war
should end she had to do with what she had, and that the
things she had formerly counted on importing would be
replaced by guns and shells, to be used, as it turned out, in
battering Russian property that happened to be in enemy
hands. She even learned that she had to develop
gun-making and shell-making at home, at the expense of those
other industries which to some small extent might have
helped her to keep going. And, just as in England such a
state of affairs would lead to a cessation of the output of iron
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