| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: superfluous person who had better get out of the way of serious
people."
"Ah, par example!"
"In a sense, you know, it was flattering; but for the moment it
made me feel as if I had been offered a pot of mustard to sniff."
She nodded with an amused air of understanding and I could see that
she was interested. "Anything more?" she asked, with a flash of
radiant eagerness in all her person and bending slightly forward
towards me.
"Oh, it's hardly worth mentioning. It was a sort of threat wrapped
up, I believe, in genuine anxiety as to what might happen to my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: that fell would lie at their feet, and gradually make a slope of
dry land, far out where the shallow sea had been; and their tops,
instead of being steep as now, would become smooth and rounded;
and so at last, instead of two sharp walls of cliff at the Chine's
mouth, you might have --just what you have here at the mouth of
this glen,--our Mount and the Warren Hill,--long slopes with
sheets of drifted gravel and sand at their feet, stretching down
into what was once an icy sea, and is now the Vale of Blackwater.
And this I really believe Madam How has done simply by lifting
Hartford Bridge Flat a few more feet out of the sea, and leaving
the rest to her trusty tool, the water in the sky.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: couch across the window large enough for a three-
quarter mattress and covered it with velour. For five
dollars a week she had thus secured a little home in
which was combined a sitting-room, bed-room, bath and
kitchenette.
It had its drawbacks, of course. The Professor
downstairs who taught music sometimes gave a special
lesson at night, and the Italian sculptor who worked on
the top floor used a hammer at the most impossible
hours. But on the whole she liked it better than the
tiresome routine of boarding. She was not afraid at
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