| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: scarlet fever on a Mongolian--what color would he be, Jimmy? What
do yellow and red make? Green?"
"Orange," Jim said shortly. "I wish you people would remember
that we are trying to eat."
The fact was, however, that no one was really eating, except Mr.
Harbison who had given up trying to understand us, considering,
no doubt, our subdued excitement as our normal condition. Ages
afterward I learned that he thought my face almost tragic that
night, and that he supposed from the way I glared across the
table, that I had quarreled with my husband!
"I am afraid you are not well," he said at last, noticing my food
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: strange. My trust in Dolly is as implicit as ever. I feel confident so far as
I am concerned, but I should never care to see you on her back again. Now with
Ban, my faith is still unshaken. Look at that neck! Isn't he handsome! He'll
be as wise as Dolly when he is as old as she."
"I feel the same way," Chris laughed back. "Ban could never possibly betray
me."
They turned their horses out of the stream. Dolly stopped to brush a fly from
her knee with her nose, and Ban urged past into the narrow way of the path.
The space was too restricted to make him return, save with much trouble, and
Chris allowed him to go on. Lute, riding behind, dwelt with her eyes upon her
lover's back, pleasuring in the lines of the bare neck and the sweep out to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: boy. I am little late. What about a chop at the Cheshire, now? .
. . Right you are, old man. . . And off they go to lunch together.
Cloete has nothing to eat that day.
"George feels a new man for a time; but all of a sudden that fellow
Stafford begins to hang about the street, in sight of the house
door. The first time George sees him he thinks he made a mistake.
But no; next time he has to go out, there is the very fellow
skulking on the other side of the road. It makes George nervous;
but he must go out on business, and when the fellow cuts across the
road-way he dodges him. He dodges him once, twice, three times;
but at last he gets nabbed in his very doorway. . . What do you
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