| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: a glass of ice water; the weather had turned unseasonably hot, and
the room in which inquests were held, was stifling, in spite of the
long opened windows at either end.
"Call Miss Helen McIntyre," Penfield said to the morgue master, and
the latter crossed to the door leading to the room where sat the
witnesses. There was instant craning of necks to catch a glimpse
of the society girl about whom, with her twin sister, so much
interest centered.
Helen was extremely pale as she advanced up the room, but Kent,
watching her closely, was relieved to see none of the nervousness
which had been so marked at their interview that morning. She was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: progress, and the net-work of wires overhead was progress. They
repeated their statements again and again.
One of them took me to their City Hall and Board of Trade works,
and pointed it out with pride. It was very ugly, but very big,
and the streets in front of it were narrow and unclean. When I
saw the faces of the men who did business in that building, I
felt that there had been a mistake in their billeting.
By the way, 'tis a consolation to feel that I am not writing to
an English audience. Then I should have to fall into feigned
ecstasies over the marvellous progress of Chicago since the days
of the great fire, to allude casually to the raising of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"Well, then, come along."
They took a downtown car.
"I've got a couple of split bamboo rods," he explained as the car
slid down the terrific grade of the Washington-Street hill. "I
haven't used 'em in years--not since we lived East; but they're
hand-made, and are tip-top. I haven't any other kind of tackle;
but it's just as well, because the tackle will all depend upon
where we are going to fish."
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