| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: with uplifted arm, for a curl that had strayed from her chignon.
"She prepares her effects very quickly," said Gordon, laughing gently.
"They follow each other very fast!"
Blanche kept her hand behind her head, which was bent slightly forward;
her bare arm emerged from her hanging sleeve, and, with her eyes glancing
upward from under her lowered brows, she smiled at her two spectators.
Her husband laid his hand on Bernard's arm.
"Is n't she pretty?" he cried; and he spoke with a sort of tender
delight in being sure at least of this point.
"Tremendously pretty!" said Bernard. "I told her so half an hour
before you came in."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike. He
had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he was trifling; but he
answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-contained
impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great
flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and
carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old
gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much
surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr. Hyde broke out of all
bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with
ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing
down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: "Why did you go alone?"
"Didn't want anyone to know."
"You're the oddest fellow I ever saw. How many did you
have out?"
Jo looked at her friend as if she did not understand him, then
began to laugh as if mightily amused at something.
"There are two which I want to have come out, but I must wait
a week."
"What are you laughing at? You are up to some mischief, Jo,"
said Laurie, looking mystified.
"So are you. What were you doing, sir, up in that billiard
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