| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: Dons round Dunkirk comer, and if shot can't do it, we'll send
down fireships."
'"I've given him my share of the ANTONY," says my Aunt.
"What do you reckon to do about yours?"
'"She offered it," said Frankie, laughing.
'"She wouldn't have if I'd overheard her," I says; "because I'd
have offered my share first." Then I told him how the ANTONY's
sails was best trimmed to drive before the wind, and seeing he was
full of occupations we went acrost to that Bridport hoy, and
left him.
'But Frankie was gentle-born, d'ye see, and that sort they never
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: engagement ring. He had made a little money in war stocks, and into
the ring he had put every dollar of his profits - and a great love, and
gentleness, and hopes which he did not formulate even to himself.
It was a solitaire diamond, conventionally set, and larger, far larger,
than the modest little stone on which Harvey had been casting anxious
glances for months.
"Do you like it, honey?" he asked anxiously.
Sara Lee looked at it on her finger.
"It is lovely! It - it's terrible!" said poor Sara Lee, and cried on his
shoulder.
Harvey was not subtle. He had never even heard of Mabel Andrews, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: which escaped were sadly injured. Not long before I had spent
some hours there hunting for English Fifteenth-century Books,
and shall never forget the state of dirt in which I came away.
Without anyone to care for them, the books had remained untouched for
many a decade-damp dust, half an inch thick, having settled upon them!
Then came the fire, and while the roof was all ablaze streams
of hot water, like a boiling deluge, washed down upon them.
The wonder was they were not turned into a muddy pulp.
After all was over, the whole of the library, no portion of which
could legally be given away, was _lent for ever_ to the Corporation
of London. Scorched and sodden, the salvage came into the hands
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