| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: No lives would compare with ours." He opened his arms wide
as if to hold her and the world in one embrace.
No longer able to consider marriage, or to weigh coolly what
her nature was, or how it would be if they lived together,
he dropped to the ground and sat absorbed in the thought of her,
and soon tormented by the desire to be in her presence again.
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But Hewet need not have increased his torments by imagining that
Hirst was still talking to Rachel. The party very soon broke up,
the Flushings going in one direction, Hirst in another, and Rachel
remaining in the hall, pulling the illustrated papers about,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: saying; but till then, I've got nothing to do but to trust to my
own hands and my own head-piece. I'm turning over a little plan
for Seth and me to go into the cabinet-making a bit by ourselves,
and win a extra pound or two in that way. But it's getting late
now--it'll be pretty near eleven before I'm at home, and Mother
may happen to lie awake; she's more fidgety nor usual now. So
I'll bid you good-night."
"Well, well, we'll go to the gate with you--it's a fine night,"
said Bartle, taking up his stick. Vixen was at once on her legs,
and without further words the three walked out into the starlight,
by the side of Bartle's potato-beds, to the little gate.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: yacht, with half a dozen South American generals and admirals as
guests.
Toward the end of the dinner Le Mire suddenly became silent
and remained for some minutes lost in thought; then, suddenly, she
turned to the bundle of gold lace at her side with a question:
"Where is Guayaquil?"
He stared at her in amazement.
"It is there, senora," he said finally, pointing to the
shore lined with twinkling lights.
"I know, I know," said Le Mire impatiently; "but where is it?
In what country?"
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