| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I will go with you," replied the boy, "and take what-
ever you get."
"Why?" asked Bridge.
The youth flushed; but did not reply, for there came
from without a sudden augmentation of the murmur-
ings of the mob. Automobile horns screamed out upon
the night. The two heard the chugging of motors, the
sound of brakes and the greetings of new arrivals. The
reinforcements had arrived from Oakdale.
A guard came to the grating of the cell door. "The
bunch from Oakdale has come," he said. "If I was you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: puzzling as a page in an unknown language - altogether different
from the obvious little Anglo-Saxons who had misrepresented
childhood to Pemberton. Indeed the whole mystic volume in which
the boy had been amateurishly bound demanded some practice in
translation. To-day, after a considerable interval, there is
something phantasmagoria, like a prismatic reflexion or a serial
novel, in Pemberton's memory of the queerness of the Moreens. If
it were not for a few tangible tokens - a lock of Morgan's hair cut
by his own hand, and the half-dozen letters received from him when
they were disjoined - the whole episode and the figures peopling it
would seem too inconsequent for anything but dreamland. Their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: 'Peace, you young savage of the Northern wild!
What! though your Prince's love were like a God's,
Have we not made ourself the sacrifice?
You are bold indeed: we are not talked to thus:
Yet will we say for children, would they grew
Like field-flowers everywhere! we like them well:
But children die; and let me tell you, girl,
Howe'er you babble, great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light
For ever, blessing those that look on them.
Children--that men may pluck them from our hearts,
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