| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: drama, and we're gathered to see what you'll do."
Strether looked at her a moment with a light perhaps slightly
obscured. "I think that must be why the hero has taken refuge in
this corner. He's scared at his heroism--he shrinks from his
part."
"Ah but we nevertheless believe he'll play it. That's why,"
Miss Barrace kindly went on, "we take such an interest in you.
We feel you'll come up to the scratch." And then as he seemed
perhaps not quite to take fire: "Don't let him do it."
"Don't let Chad go?"
"Yes, keep hold of him. With all this"--and she indicated the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: 'What is it?' she panted.
'You forget that I am to be feared as well as--loathed,
Mademoiselle! Ay, Mademoiselle, to be feared!' I continued
grimly. 'Do you think that I do not know why you are here in
this guise? Do you think that I do not know for whom that
pitcher of broth was intended? Or who will now have to fast to-
night? I tell you I know all these things. Your house was full
of soldiers; your servants were watched and could not leave. You
had to come yourself and get food for him?'
She clutched at the handrail of the bridge, and for an instant
clung to it for support. Her face, from which the shawl had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: lead and instruct in religious matters; that all Englishmen, and none but
Englishmen, should engage in trade; that each German should make his living
by music, and none but a German allowed to practise it, would drive to
despair the unfortunate individual Englishman, whose most marked deficiency
might be in the direction of finance and bartering trade power; the Jew,
whose religious instincts might be entirely rudimentary; or the German, who
could not distinguish one note from another; and the society as a whole
would be an irremediable loser, in one of the heaviest of all forms of
social loss--the loss of the full use of the highest capacities of all its
members.
It may be that with sexes as with races, the subtlest physical difference
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