| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: Melbury said no more. It was exasperating to him that just at
this moment, when there was every reason for Fitzpiers to stay
indoors, or at any rate to ride along the Shottsford road to meet
his ailing wife, he should be doing despite to her by going
elsewhere. The old man went out-of-doors again; and his horse
being hardly unsaddled as yet, he told Upjohn to retighten the
girths, when he again mounted, and rode off at the heels of the
surgeon.
By the time that Melbury reached the park, he was prepared to go
any lengths in combating this rank and reckless errantry of his
daughter's husband. He would fetch home Edgar Fitzpiers to-night
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: rejoined Lord Lambeth with even exaggerated gravity.
But Bessie Alden could induce him to enter no formal protest
against this repulsive custom, which he seemed to think
an extreme convenience.
Percy Beaumont all this time had been a very much less
frequent visitor at Jones's Hotel than his noble kinsman;
he had, in fact, called but twice upon the two American ladies.
Lord Lambeth, who often saw him, reproached him with his neglect
and declared that, although Mrs. Westgate had said nothing
about it, he was sure that she was secretly wounded by it.
"She suffers too much to speak," said Lord Lambeth.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: "My hat?" Raut looked round in the half-light.
"That's my work-basket," said Mrs. Horrocks, with a gust of
hysterical laughter. Their hands came together on the back of the
chair. "Here it is!" he said. She had an impulse to warn him in
an undertone, but she could not frame a word. "Don't go!" and
"Beware of him!" struggled in her mind, and the swift moment
passed.
"Got it?" said Horrocks, standing with the door half open.
Raut stepped towards him. "Better say good-bye to Mrs.
Horrocks," said the ironmaster, even more grimly quiet in his tone
than before.
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