| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: backs with exaggerated delicacy, as if to avoid the reproach of
interfering. Seeing in time how little he had in common with them
- it was by THEM he first observed it; they proclaimed it with
complete humility - his companion was moved to speculate on the
mysteries of transmission, the far jumps of heredity. Where his
detachment from most of the things they represented had come from
was more than an observer could say - it certainly had burrowed
under two or three generations.
As for Pemberton's own estimate of his pupil, it was a good while
before he got the point of view, so little had he been prepared for
it by the smug young barbarians to whom the tradition of tutorship,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: But neither of them was so worn out as poor
Miss Martha, anticipating her cousin's reproaches.
However, her wonted silence and reticence stood
her in good stead, for he merely asked, after little
Lucy had gone to bed:
"Well, what did Madame say about Lucy's pro-
posals?"
"She did not say anything," replied Martha.
"Did she promise it would not occur again?"
"She did not promise, but I don't think it will."
The financial page was unusually thrilling that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are
frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes, Mr. Cornwall
(one of the Lords of the Treasury) treated the petition of the New-York
Assembly with contempt, because THAT House, he said, consisted but
of twenty-six members, which trifling number, he argued, could not
with decency be put for the whole. We thank him for his involuntary honesty.
[Those who would fully understand of what great consequence a large and equal
representation is to a state, should read Burgh's political disquisitions.]
TO CONCLUDE, however strange it may appear to some, or however unwilling
they may be to think so, matters not, but many strong and striking reasons
may be given, to shew, that nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously
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