| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: come aboard and trade; but once on the deck it developed
that he had not brought nothing wherewith to trade.
He seemed not the slightest disconcerted by this discovery,
stating that he would bring such articles as they wished
when he had learned what their requirements were.
The ubiquitous Sing was on hand during the interview,
but from his expressionless face none might guess what
was passing through the tortuous channels of his
Oriental mind. The Malay had been aboard nearly half
an hour talking with von Horn when the mate, Bududreen,
came on deck, and it was Sing alone who noted the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: father? Why, you could kill him if he dreamed of waking the baby! Just
as the child is the world to us, so do we stand alone in the world for
the child. The sweet consciousness of a common life is ample
recompense for all the trouble and suffering--for suffering there is.
Heaven save you, Louise, from ever knowing the maddening agony of a
wound which gapes afresh with every pressure of rosy lips, and is so
hard to heal--the heaviest tax perhaps imposed on beauty. For know,
Louise, and beware! it visits only a fair and delicate skin.
My little ape has in five months developed into the prettiest darling
that ever mother bathed in tears of joy, washed, brushed, combed, and
made smart; for God knows what unwearied care we lavish upon those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: VIVIE. The deal little boy with his dowdy little girl.
FRANK. Ever so peaceful, and relieved from the imbecility of the
little boy's father and the questionableness of the little girl's
--
VIVIE [smothering the word against her breast] Sh-sh-sh-sh!
little girl wants to forget all about her mother. [They are
silent for some moments, rocking one another. Then Vivie wakes
up with a shock, exclaiming] What a pair of fools we are! Come:
sit up. Gracious! your hair. [She smooths it]. I wonder do all
grown up people play in that childish way when nobody is looking.
I never did it when I was a child.
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