| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: really mean you've got a Rise, all at once, of two hundred a
year?"
"To marry on--yes."
She scrutinised me a moment. "You've done this as a surprise!"
she said, and laughed at my laughter. She had become radiant,
and that made me radiant, too.
"Yes," I said, "yes," and laughed no longer bitterly.
She clasped her hands and looked me in the eyes.
She was so pleased that I forgot absolutely my disgust of a
moment before. I forgot that she had raised her price two
hundred pounds a year and that I had bought her at that.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: NEH 6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty and two days.
NEH 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof,
and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much
cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was
wrought of our God.
NEH 6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters
unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
NEH 6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was
the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had
taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: up to that extent, Finsbury, that if it were to get out it's my
belief we should get lynched.'
It was useless to be serious with Mr Wickham. 'Take care,' said
Michael. 'I am getting tired of your perpetual scrapes; my
reputation is beginning to suffer.'
'Your reputation will be all gone before you finish with me,'
replied his companion with a grin. 'Clap it in the bill, my boy.
"For total loss of reputation, six and eightpence." But,'
continued Mr Wickham with more seriousness, 'could I be bowled
out of the Commission for this little jest? I know it's small,
but I like to be a JP. Speaking as a professional man, do you
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