| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: Nikita stopped as if he had suddenly realized this.
'Yes, I ought to. . . . But they'll do like this. It isn't
far!' and he ran out into the yard.
'Won't you be cold, Nikita?' said the mistress as he came up to
the sledge.
'Cold? No, I'm quite warm,' answered Nikita as he pushed some
straw up to the forepart of the sledge so that it should cover
his feet, and stowed away the whip, which the good horse would
not need, at the bottom of the sledge.
Vasili Andreevich, who was wearing two fur-lined coats one over
the other, was already in the sledge, his broad back filling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: And hither am I come to seek him out;
And they that first can tell me of his news
Shall have a hundred pound for their reward.
BANISTER.
How just is God to right the innocent.
GOVERNOUR.
Master Bowser, you come in happy time:
Here is the villain Bagot that you seek,
And all those jewels have I in my hands.
Officers, look to him, hold him fast.
BAGOT.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: in this world. And truly--he would add--how was
he to know? He fought his way against the rain
and the gale on all fours, and crawled at last
among some sheep huddled close under the lee of a
hedge. They ran off in all directions, bleating in
the darkness, and he welcomed the first familiar
sound he heard on these shores. It must have been
two in the morning then. And this is all we know
of the manner of his landing, though he did not
arrive unattended by any means. Only his grisly
company did not begin to come ashore till much
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