| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: drive, or fail to deliver promptly, we're going to get left the year
following. And then it's B-U-S-T, bust."
"Well, we'll just try not to hang her," replied Orde.
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Orde's bank account, in spite of his laughing assertion to Newmark,
contained some eleven hundred dollars. After a brief but
comprehensive tour of inspection over all the works then forward, he
drew a hundred of this and announced to Newmark that business would
take him away for about two weeks.
"I have some private affairs to attend to before settling down to
business for keeps," he told Newmark vaguely.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: "'Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat;
You will find I have told it you twice.
'Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete,
If only I've stated it thrice."
The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care,
Attending to every word:
But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair,
When the third repetition occurred.
It felt that, in spite of all possible pains,
It had somehow contrived to lose count,
And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains
The Hunting of the Snark |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: destination, I have particular reasons for not trusting it to any
other conveyance; so that without your help, I am wholly at a loss.'
'She was not going that way, sir, either to-day, or to-morrow, nor
indeed all next week,' the lady graciously rejoined, 'but we shall
be very glad to put ourselves out of the way on your account, and
if you wish it, you may depend upon its going to-day. You might
suppose,' said Mrs Varden, frowning at her husband, 'from Varden's
sitting there so glum and silent, that he objected to this
arrangement; but you must not mind that, sir, if you please. It's
his way at home. Out of doors, he can be cheerful and talkative
enough.'
Barnaby Rudge |
