| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: leave behind.
'Oh!' said Puck. 'I see. What did you do?'
'First I was going to make some sort of tale round it, but
Talleyrand was a chief too. So I said, "As soon as I get Red
Jacket's permission to tell that part of the tale, I'll be delighted to
refresh your memory, Abbe." What else could I have done?
'"Is that all?" he says, laughing. "Let me refresh your
memory. In a month from now I can give you a hundred dollars
for your account of the conversation."
'"Make it five hundred, Abbe," I says.
'"Five, then," says he.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: but she only looked at him the more tenderly.
"Not, however," he went on, "that I want to talk to you about that.
It's my own little affair, and I mentioned it simply as part of
Mrs. Pocock's advantage." No, no; though there was a queer present
temptation in it, and his suspense was so real that to fidget was a
relief, he wouldn't talk to her about Mrs. Newsome, wouldn't work
off on her the anxiety produced in him by Sarah's calculated
omissions of reference. The effect she produced of representing her
mother had been produced--and that was just the immense, the
uncanny part of it--without her having so much as mentioned that
lady. She had brought no message, had alluded to no question, had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: it, and grief therewith. Give us news of our fathers and our
mothers, if any of them be left alive on earth.'
Then there was shouting, and laughing, and weeping; and all
the kings came to the shore, and they led away the heroes to
their homes, and bewailed the valiant dead.
Then Jason went up with Medeia to the palace of his uncle
Pelias. And when he came in Pelias sat by the hearth,
crippled and blind with age; while opposite him sat AEson,
Jason's father, crippled and blind likewise; and the two old
men's heads shook together as they tried to warm themselves
before the fire.
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