| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: "Billy, what are you saying?"
Martin, slowly putting down his paper, remarked without stressing
a syllable:
"You had better go to bed, Bill; at once, without arguing."
Bill moved towards the parlor, as though to obey. At the door he
stopped a moment and said: "I wasn't arguing; I was just
answering mother. She wanted to know."
"She does not want to know."
"Then I wanted her to know that I don't intend to work after
school any more. I'll do my chores in the morning, but that's
all. From now on nobody can MAKE me do anything."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: Harry himself lay hid for several nights in the thickets
of brushwood which clothed the hill-side.
Nothing was discovered--no human being emerged from the opening.
So most people came to the conclusion that the villains had
been finally dislodged from the mine, and that, as to Nell,
they must suppose her to be dead at the bottom of the shaft
where they had left her.
While it remained unworked, the mine had been a safe enough
place of refuge, secure from all search or pursuit. But now,
circumstances being altered, it became difficult to conceal this
lurking-place, and it might reasonably be hoped they were gone,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: Baronne du Chatelet to the Vicomtesse de Fontaine.
"Do you think--" began the vicomtesse.
"If so," interrupted Madame de Camps, in defence of her friend,
"Monsieur Rabourdin would at least have had the cross."
About eleven o'clock des Lupeaulx appeared; and we can only describe
him by saying that his spectacles were sad and his eyes joyous; the
glasses, however, obscured the glances so successfully that only a
physiognomist would have seen the diabolical expression which they
wore. He went up to Rabourdin and pressed the hand which the latter
could not avoid giving him.
Then he approached Madame Rabourdin.
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