| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: odds and ends somehow, somewhere, somewhen, as is fit and proper
for the Housekeeper of the whole Universe. Indeed, Madam How is
so patient that some people fancy her stupid, and think that,
because she does not fall into a passion every time you steal her
sweets, or break her crockery, or disarrange her furniture,
therefore she does not care. But I advise you as a little boy,
and still more when you grow up to be a man, not to get that fancy
into your head; for you will find that, however good-natured and
patient Madam How is in most matters, her keeping silence and not
seeming to see you is no sign that she has forgotten. On the
contrary, she bears a grudge (if one may so say, with all respect
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: will do what he wants you to do. You know that I was always ready
to stand by my men - if they had only let me.'
"Davidson had no doubt of her earnestness. It was of Bamtz's good
faith that he was not at all sure. Bamtz wanted Davidson to
promise to call at Mirrah more or less regularly. He thought he
saw an opening to do business with rattans there, if only he could
depend on some craft to bring out trading goods and take away his
produce.
"'I have a few dollars to make a start on. The people are all
right.'
"He had come there, where he was not known, in a native prau, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: Coquenard, firm upon his legs, would have declined all
relationship with M. Porthos.
"Yes, monsieur, we are cousins," said Porthos, without being
disconcerted, as he had never reckoned upon being received
enthusiastically by the husband.
"By the female side, I believe?" said the procurator,
maliciously.
Porthos did not feel the ridicule of this, and took it for a
piece of simplicity, at which he laughed in his large
mustache. Mme. Coquenard, who knew that a simple-minded
procurator was a very rare variety in the species, smiled a
The Three Musketeers |
