| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: all about it."
He stood before her, irresolute. "I can't sit down," he
said.
"Walk about, then. Only tell me: I'm impatient."
His immediate response was to throw himself into the
armchair at her side, where he lounged for a moment without
speaking, his legs stretched out, his arms locked behind his
thrown-back head. Anna, her eyes on his face, waited
quietly for him to speak.
"Well--of course it was just what one expected."
"She takes it so badly, you mean?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: tell; and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery
which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of
freedom, were essential features in the undertaking. My success
was due to address rather than courage, to good luck rather than
bravery. My means of escape were provided for me by the very men
who were making laws to hold and bind me more securely in slavery.
It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free
colored people to have what were called free papers.
These instruments they were required to renew very often,
and by charging a fee for this writing, considerable sums from
time to time were collected by the State. In these papers the name,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: explain it, even to myself."
"The man who stole it is not such a fool as to let me have it without
keeping a copy for himself; he is too great a liar to admit it, and
too clever in his business to give it up. I did not even ask him for
it."
"Who is he?"
"Your chief clerk."
"Dutocq! People are always punished through their kindnesses! But,"
she added, "he is only a dog who wants a bone."
"Do you know what the other side offer me, poor devil of a general-
secretary?"
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