| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: For Somerset, off with his guilty head.
Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak.
OXFORD.
For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.
SOMERSET.
Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.
[Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded.]
QUEEN MARGARET.
So part we sadly in this troublous world,
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.
KING EDWARD.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: kinsman privately reflected.
"I really believe," Mrs. Westgate continued, "that the most charming
girl in the world is a Boston superstructure upon a New York fonds;
or perhaps a New York superstructure upon a Boston fonds. At any rate,
it's the mixture," said Mrs. Westgate, who continued to give Percy
Beaumont a great deal of information.
Lord Lambeth got into a little basket phaeton with Bessie Alden,
and she drove him down the long avenue, whose extent he had
measured on foot a couple of hours before, into the ancient town,
as it was called in that part of the world, of Newport. The ancient
town was a curious affair--a collection of fresh-looking little
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: him. Servants worshipped him, and treated him like a god. He
seemed the eternal example of what the upper class tries to be.
"He's like those pictures in the Illustrated London News of the
English officers who have been killed," Amory had said to Alec.
"Well," Alec had answered, "if you want to know the shocking
truth, his father was a grocery clerk who made a fortune in
Tacoma real estate and came to New York ten years ago."
Amory had felt a curious sinking sensation.
This present type of party was made possible by the surging
together of the class after club electionsas if to make a last
desperate attempt to know itself, to keep together, to fight off
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