| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: Comes to our house, and you must weary him
With most misplaced assurance. Ask his pardon.
SIMONE. I ask it humbly. We will talk to-night
Of other things. I hear the Holy Father
Has sent a letter to the King of France
Bidding him cross that shield of snow, the Alps,
And make a peace in Italy, which will be
Worse than a war of brothers, and more bloody
Than civil rapine or intestine feuds.
GUIDO. Oh! we are weary of that King of France,
Who never comes, but ever talks of coming.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: won't last long now."
And Prudence held out her hand to me, adding:
"Come and see her; it will make her very happy."
"I have no desire to meet M. de N."
"M. de N. is never there. She can not endure him."
"If Marguerite wishes to see me, she knows where I live; let her
come to see me, but, for my part, I will never put foot in the
Rue d'Antin."
"Will you receive her well?"
"Certainly."
"Well, I am sure that she will come."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: Scilly and the rocks about it, as is observed before--I say, as
they carefully keep to the southward till they think they are fair
with the Channel, and then stand to the northward again, or north-
east, to make the land, this is the reason why the Lizard is,
generally speaking, the first land they make, and not the Land's
End.
Then having made the Lizard, they either (first) run in for
Falmouth, which is the next port, if they are taken short with
easterly winds, or are in want of provisions and refreshment, or
have anything out of order, so that they care not to keep the sea;
or (secondly) stand away for the Ram Head and Plymouth Sound; or
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