| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: my gray hairs." They hung down to his shoulders, as I told you
before.
"Aye!" said Hans; "there are enough of them to keep you
warm. Walk!"
"I'm very, very hungry, sir; couldn't you spare me a bit of
bread before I go?"
"Bread, indeed!" said Schwartz; "do you suppose we've
nothing to do with our bread but to give it to such red-nosed
fellows as you?"
"Why don't you sell your feather?" said Hans sneeringly.
"Out with you!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: him, her last word of the other time. She showed how she wished to
leave their business in order. "I'm not sure you understood.
You've nothing to wait for more. It HAS come."
Oh how he looked at her! "Really?"
"Really."
"The thing that, as you said, WAS to?"
"The thing that we began in our youth to watch for."
Face to face with her once more he believed her; it was a claim to
which he had so abjectly little to oppose. "You mean that it has
come as a positive definite occurrence, with a name and a date?"
"Positive. Definite. I don't know about the 'name,' but, oh with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: building, Santa Claus was surprised to find that the chimney had been
built much smaller than usual. But he had no time to think about it
just then, so he drew in his breath and made himself as small as
possible and slid down the chimney.
"I ought to be at the bottom by this time," he thought, as he
continued to slip downward; but no fireplace of any sort met his view,
and by and by he reached the very end of the chimney, which was
in the cellar.
"This is odd!" he reflected, much puzzled by this experience. "If
there is no fireplace, what on earth is the chimney good for?"
Then he began to climb out again, and found it hard work--the space
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