| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: of some, the strength of others, and in one case re-
vealing an essentially comic aspect. He was a
short, gingery, active man with a nose and chin of
the Punch type, and whom his shipmates called
"Frenchy." I don't know why. He may have
been a Frenchman, but I have never heard him
utter a single word in French.
To see him coming aft to the wheel comforted
one. The blue dungaree trousers turned up the
calf, one leg a little higher than the other, the clean
check shirt, the white canvas cap, evidently made
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: wrong; it don't tell me what they're afraid of - what their idea
is."
"Well, I wish I knew," said Case. "I can't say fairer than that."
"You might have asked, I think," says I.
"And so I did," says he. "But you must have seen for yourself,
unless you're blind, that the asking got the other way. I'll go as
far as I dare for another white man; but when I find I'm in the
scrape myself, I think first of my own bacon. The loss of me is
I'm too good-natured. And I'll take the freedom of telling you you
show a queer kind of gratitude to a man who's got into all this
mess along of your affairs."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: neighbor. "Look at Taillefer!--there, seated on that sofa at the
corner of the fireplace. Mademoiselle Fanny is offering him a cup of
coffee. He smiles. Would a murderer to whom that tale must have been
torture, present so calm a face? Isn't his whole air patriarchal?"
"Yes; but go and ask him if he went to the war in Germany," I said.
"Why not?"
And with that audacity which is seldom lacking to women when some
action attracts them, or their minds are impelled by curiosity, my
neighbor went up to the purveyor.
"Were you ever in Germany?" she asked.
Taillefer came near dropping his cup and saucer.
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