| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: course, he has no settled position, but that can't be helped.
Please God, in time he will get one. He is of good family and
well off."
"Where did you learn that?"
"He told us so. His father has a large house in Harkov and an
estate in the neighbourhood. In short, Nikolay Stepanovitch, you
absolutely must go to Harkov."
"What for?"
"You will find out all about him there. . . . You know the
professors there; they will help you. I would go myself, but I am
a woman. I cannot. . . ."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: gravedigger in HAMLET says) he was not a person to be laughed
at.' He attended the Parliament House in the character of a
critic, and could give you stale sneers at all the celebrated
speakers. He was the terror of essayists at the Speculative
or the Forensic. In social qualities he seems to have stood
unrivalled. Even in the police-office we find him shining
with undiminished lustre. 'If a CHARLIE should find him
rather noisy at an untimely hour, and venture to take him
into custody, he appears next morning like a Daniel come to
judgment. He opens his mouth to speak, and the divine
precepts of unchanging justice and Scots law flow from his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: appeared indistinct and seemed rather small--more like hills than
mountains--but as the travelers drew nearer, they noted a most unusual
circumstance: the hills were all whirling around, some in one
direction and some the opposite way.
"I guess these are the Merry-Go-Round Mountains, all right," said
Dorothy.
"They must be," said the Wizard.
"They go 'round, sure enough," agreed Trot, "but they don't seem very
merry."
There were several rows of these mountains, extending both to the
right and to the left for miles and miles. How many rows there might
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