| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and
sometimes stayed to dine with him. When his sprain was well enough
to admit of horse exercise, he rode out a good deal; probably to
return these visits, as he generally did not come back till late at
night.
During this interval, even Adele was seldom sent for to his
presence, and all my acquaintance with him was confined to an
occasional rencontre in the hall, on the stairs, or in the gallery,
when he would sometimes pass me haughtily and coldly, just
acknowledging my presence by a distant nod or a cool glance, and
sometimes bow and smile with gentlemanlike affability. His changes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: surprised at his taking the trouble to write. Of course I went,
and when I arrived I found him in a state of great excitement. He
told me that he had at last discovered the true secret of
Shakespeare's Sonnets; that all the scholars and critics had been
entirely on the wrong tack; and that he was the first who, working
purely by internal evidence, had found out who Mr. W. H. really
was. He was perfectly wild with delight, and for a long time would
not tell me his theory. Finally, he produced a bundle of notes,
took his copy of the Sonnets off the mantelpiece, and sat down and
gave me a long lecture on the whole subject.
'He began by pointing out that the young man to whom Shakespeare
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: than you can imagine or count.
But that is among the harder lessons which come in the latter part
of Madam How's book. Children need not learn them yet; and they
can never learn them, unless they master her alphabet, and her
short and easy lessons for beginners, some of which I am trying to
teach you now.
But I have just recollected that we are a couple of very stupid
fellows. We have been talking all this time about chalk and
limestone, and have forgotten to settle what they are, and how
they were made. We must think of that next time. It will not do
for us (at least if we mean to be scientific men) to use terms
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