| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: "And then what do you expect?"
"Then we shall work for our bread."
"Till you die?"
"Ye-es--unless--"
"Unless what? This is your business, you know. A man works
until he dies."
"So shall we"--this without enthusiasm--"I suppose."
Said the partner in the firm, audaciously:--"Sometimes we marry
our employees--at least, that's what the newspapers say."
The hand banged on half a dozen of the keys of the machine at
once. "Yet I don't care. I hate it--I hate it--I hate it--and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: he. "But, my dear friend, the Papists got some good ideas too; and
tha' 's one of 'em. You take my advice, and whenever you come
across Uma or Fa'avao or Vigours, or any of that crowd, you take a
leaf out o' the priests, and do what I do. Savvy?" says he,
repeated the sign, and winked his dim eye at me. "No, SIR!" he
broke out again, "no Papists here!" and for a long time entertained
me with his religious opinions.
I must have been taken with Uma from the first, or I should
certainly have fled from that house, and got into the clean air,
and the clean sea, or some convenient river - though, it's true, I
was committed to Case; and, besides, I could never have held my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: rapid stride. She was wrapped in his long coat, yet it did not hide
her slender grace. He could not see her face, which was concealed
by the black mantle.
A low-spoken word from Ladd recalled Gale to the question of
surroundings and of possible dangers. Ladd had halted a few yards
ahead. They had reached the summit of what was evidently a high
ridge which sloped with much greater steepness on the far side.
It was only after a few more forward steps, however, that Dick
could see down the slope. Then full in view flashed a bright
campfire around which clustered a group of dark figures. They
were encamped in a wide arroyo, where horses could be seen grazing
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