| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: will be scandalized. I know you are not easily scandalized;
I am not afraid of you. You are scandalized at my getting
so many dresses? Well, I told you I was spoiled--I freely
acknowledge it. That 's why I was afraid to tell Gordon--
because when I was married I had such a lot of things;
I was supposed to have dresses enough to last for a year.
But Gordon had n't to pay for them, so there was no harm in my
letting him feel that he has a wife. If he thinks I am extravagant,
he can easily stop kissing me. You don't think it would be easy
to stop? It 's very well, then, for those that have never
begun!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Muretus, and their friend Andrea Govea, Ronsard, the French court
poet, said that they had nothing of the pedagogue about them but the
gown and cap. "Austere in face, and rustic in his looks," says
David Buchanan, "but most polished in style and speech; and
continually, even in serious conversation, jesting most wittily."
"Rough-hewn, slovenly, and rude," says Peacham, in his "Compleat
Gentleman," speaking of him, probably, as he appeared in old age,
"in his person, behaviour, and fashion; seldom caring for a better
outside than a rugge-gown girt close about him: yet his inside and
conceipt in poesie was most rich, and his sweetness and facilitie in
verse most excellent." A typical Lowland Scot, as I said just now,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: along the sand, erased carefully with his hand all traces of
Nina's footsteps. He piled up small heaps of sand, leaving
behind him a line of miniature graves right down to the water.
After burying the last slight imprint of Nina's slipper he stood
up, and, turning his face towards the headland where he had last
seen the prau, he made an effort to shout out loud again his firm
resolve to never forgive. Ali watching him uneasily saw only his
lips move, but heard no sound. He brought his foot down with a
stamp. He was a firm man--firm as a rock. Let her go. He never
had a daughter. He would forget. He was forgetting already.
Ali approached him again, insisting on immediate departure, and
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