| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: might brood below, I would not permit myself to think.
Later,
clawing my way along a badly heaped section of the corridor, I
reached a place where the roof had wholly caved in. The debris
rose like a mountain, and I climbed up over it, passing through
a vast, empty space where my torchlight could reveal neither walls
nor vaulting. This, I reflected, must be the cellar of the house
of the metal-purveyors, fronting on the third square not far from
the archives. What had happened to it I could not conjecture.
I found the corridor again beyond the mountain of detritus and
stone, but after a short distance encountered a wholly choked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: back and leaned against his column. Eugenia was now complimenting
her uncle upon his daughter's engagement, and Mr. Wentworth
was listening with his usual plain yet refined politeness.
It is to be supposed that by this time his perception of the mutual
relations of the young people who surrounded him had become more acute;
but he still took the matter very seriously, and he was not
at all exhilarated.
"Felix will make her a good husband," said Eugenia.
"He will be a charming companion; he has a great quality--
indestructible gayety."
"You think that 's a great quality?" asked the old man.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: It is incredible how much mischief is often done by well-meaning
persons, who, in struggling towards the attainment of an excellent end
--such, for instance, as that of economy and efficiency in prison
administration--forget entirely the bearing which their reforms may
have upon the prisoners themselves.
The Salvation Army has at least one great qualification for dealing
with this question I believe I am in the proud position of being at the
head of the only religious body which has always some of its members in
gaol for conscience' sake. We are also one of the few religious bodies
which can boast that many of those who are in our ranks have gone
through terms of penal servitude. We, therefore, know the prison at
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