| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: special, significant, and expressive, that would match his
person, his simple and romantic person."
He perceived that Mrs. Travers was looking at him intently. They
hastened to turn their eyes away from each other.
"He would like your appreciation," Mrs. Travers let drop
negligently.
"I am afraid he would despise it."
"Despise it! Why, that sort of thing is the very breath of his
nostrils."
"You seem to understand him, Mrs. Travers. Women have a singular
capacity for understanding. I mean subjects that interest them;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: That the time may pass more gayly,
And our guests be more contented!"
Then the handsome Pau-Puk-Keewis,
He the idle Yenadizze,
He the merry mischief-maker,
Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,
Rose among the guests assembled.
Skilled was he in sports and pastimes,
In the merry dance of snow-shoes,
In the play of quoits and ball-play;
Skilled was he in games of hazard,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: through the country of these piratical marauders. In fact, three
men deserted while at this village. Luckily, their place was
supplied by three others who happened to be there, and who were
prevailed on to join the expedition by promises of liberal pay,
and by being fitted out and equipped in complete style.
The irresolution and discontent visible among some of his people,
arising at times almost to mutiny, and the occasional desertions
which took place while thus among friendly tribes, and within
reach of the frontiers, added greatly to the anxieties of Mr.
Hunt, and rendered him eager to press forward and leave a hostile
tract behind him, so that it would be as perilous to return as to
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