| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: trunkfuls from Paris. But mercifully I've managed to persuade
her that it would be foolish to wait."
Susy felt a hardly perceptible shifting of her husband's
lounging body, and was aware, through all her watchful
tentacles, of a widening of his half-closed lids.
"You 'managed'--?" She fancied he paused on the word
ironically. "But why?"
"Why--what?"
"Why on earth should you try to prevent Ellie's waiting for
Nelson, if for once in her life she wants to?"
Susy, conscious of reddening suddenly, drew back as though the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: companion to admonish me. "It sounds a little stale, but you know
his freshness."
"Of illustration? Indeed I do!"
"And how he has always been right on that great question."
"On what great question, dear lady, hasn't he been right?"
"Of what other great men can you equally say it?--and that he has
never, but NEVER, had a deflexion?" Mrs. Mulville exultantly
demanded.
I tried to think of some other great man, but I had to give it up.
"Didn't Miss Anvoy express her satisfaction in any less diffident
way than by her charming present?" I was reduced to asking instead.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: greatest fire and poison resister that ever
appeared in London.
Seeking new laurels, he came to America in
1832, and although he was successful in New
York, his subsequent tour of the States was
financially disastrous. He evidently saved
enough from the wreck, however, to start in
business, and the declining years of his eventful
life were passed in the comparative obscurity
of a little drug store in Grand Street.
As his biographer I regret to be obliged to
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