| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: anger at the dull course of fate, but also sympathy for her lack of
understanding--a sympathy near akin to pity.
"DEAR," he said, and he could see by her whiteness how
tensely her spirit pressed against the things she could not say.
He put his arms about her, he kissed her ear, and they sat for a
time in silence.
"If I were to consent to this?" he said at last, in a voice
that was very gentle.
She flung her arms about him, weeping wildly. "Oh, if you
would," she sobbed, "if only you would!"
For a week before the operation that was to raise him from his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the victory was in appearance only; the opposition was latent; it
found vent in talk, and thus reacted on the natives; upon the least
excuse, it was ready to flame forth again. And this is the more
singular because some were far from out of sympathy with the native
policy pursued. When I met Captain Brandeis, he was amazed at my
attitude. "Whom did you find in Apia to tell you so much good of
me?" he asked. I named one of my informants. "He?" he cried. "If
he thought all that, why did he not help me?" I told him as well
as I was able. The man was a merchant. He beheld in the
government of Brandeis a government created by and for the firm who
were his rivals. If Brandeis were minded to deal fairly, where was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: of his.
The soul of a man has a series of concentric envelopes round it,
like the core of an onion, or the innermost of a nest of boxes.
First, he has his natural garment of flesh and blood. Then, his
artificial integuments, with their true skin of solid stuffs, their
cuticle of lighter tissues, and their variously-tinted pigments.
Thirdly, his domicile, be it a single chamber or a stately mansion.
And then, the whole visible world, in which Time buttons him up as
in a loose outside wrapper.
You shall observe, - the Professor said, - for, like Mr. John
Hunter and other great men, he brings in that SHALL with great
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