| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: really did not know till to-day, how much you meant to me. I could hear only
the plunging and struggle in the thicket. I could not see you, nor know how it
went with you."
"My thoughts were of you," Chris answered, and felt the responsive pressure of
the hand that rested on his arm.
She turned her face up to his and met his lips.
"Good night," she said.
"Dear Lute, dear Lute," he caressed her with his voice as she moved away among
the shadows.
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"Who's going for the mail?" called a woman's voice through the trees.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: fizz!'
'Your head bad again, Worm?' said Mr. Swancourt. 'What was that
noise we heard in the yard?'
'Ay, sir, a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going
on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as
usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg-
wood across the shaft of the pony-shay, and splintered it off.
"Ay," says I, "I feel it as if 'twas my own shay; and though I've
done it, and parish pay is my lot if I go from here, perhaps I am
as independent as one here and there."'
'Dear me, the shaft of the carriage broken!' cried Elfride. She
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: indefinitely."
"Shucks!" returned Tip, indignantly. "You ought to be glad that I made you
at all." Then he added, reflectively, "everything has to come to an end,
some time."
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"But I beg to remind you," broke in the Woggle-Bug, who had a distressed
look in his bulging, round eyes, "that this terrible Queen Jinjur suggested
making a goulash of me -- Me! the only Highly Magnified and Thoroughly
Educated Woggle-Bug in the wide, wide world!"
"I think it was a brilliant idea," remarked the Scarecrow, approvingly.
"Don't you imagine he would make a better soup?" asked the Tin Woodman,
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