| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: utterance. 'But it do seem bloomin' hard to me, that I should be
the only party down with this form of vice, and the only one to
do the funny business. I think one of you other parties might
wake up. Tell a fellow something.'
'The trouble is we've nothing to tell, my son,' returned the
captain.
'I'll tell you, if you like, what I was thinking,' said Herrick.
'Tell us anything,' said the clerk, 'I only want to be reminded
that I ain't dead.'
Herrick took up his parable, lying on his face and speaking
slowly and scarce above his breath, not like a man who has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: put on the meat to boil for dinner, before she dared
address that silent figure which had about it some-
thing tragic. Then she spoke in a small voice.
"Christopher," said she.
Christopher made no reply.
"It is a good morning to plow, ain't it?" said
Myrtle.
Christopher was silent.
"Jim Mason got over real early; I suppose he
thought you'd want to get at the south field. He's
been sitting there at the barn door for 'most two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Comes of not using a filter, my lord."
Berry's brows contracted. He touched the wad with his foot.
"No," he said loftily. "This has clearly worked in from the
engine. It is a piece of valve-packing."
I sighed. Heaven only knows what he thought he meant. But old
Brethe lapped it up. Heavily I began to replace the pipe. As I
unscrewed them, I put the nuts on the step. Now one was missing.
It had rolled off.
"Lost something?" said Berry.
"A nut, sir. I shall see it directly."
"Never put anything where it can roll off, man. When you are
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