| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: money?"
"It was very handsome." Now at last she met my eyes, though I
could see it was with an effort. "Thirty pounds."
"Straight out of her pocket?"
"Out of the drawer of a table at which she had been writing. She
just slipped the folded notes into my hand. He wasn't looking; it
was while he was going back to the carriage." "Oh," said Adelaide
reassuringly, "I take care of it for him!" The dear practical soul
thought my agitation, for I confess I was agitated, referred to the
employment of the money. Her disclosure made me for a moment muse
violently, and I dare say that during that moment I wondered if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: in and struggled out, drivers swearing, mules plunging and mud
spattering for yards.
Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty
figure in her black mourning dress, her crepe veil fluttering
almost to her heels. She hesitated, unwilling to soil her
slippers and hems, and looked about in the shouting tangle of
wagons, buggies and carriages for Miss Pittypat. There was no
sign of that chubby pink-cheeked lady, but as Scarlett searched
anxiously a spare old negro, with grizzled kinks and an air of
dignified authority, came toward her through the mud, his hat in
his hand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Then continuing his former tone, he said, "And yet this
house you would spoil, Mrs. Dashwood? You would rob it
of its simplicity by imaginary improvement! and this dear
parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which
so many happy hours have been since spent by us together,
you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance,
and every body would be eager to pass through the room
which has hitherto contained within itself more real
accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of
the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
Mrs. Dashwood again assured him that no alteration
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