| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: surprised. "And where have you come from, Mr. David Balfour?" he
asked, looking me pretty drily in the face.
"I have come from a great many strange places, sir," said I; "but
I think it would be as well to tell you where and how in a more
private manner."
He seemed to muse awhile, holding his lip in his hand, and
looking now at me and now upon the causeway of the street.
"Yes," says he, "that will be the best, no doubt." And he led me
back with him into his house, cried out to some one whom I could
not see that he would be engaged all morning, and brought me into
a little dusty chamber full of books and documents. Here he sate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: XXI
THE morning drum-call on my eager ear
Thrills unforgotten yet; the morning dew
Lies yet undried along my field of noon.
But now I pause at whiles in what I do,
And count the bell, and tremble lest I hear
(My work untrimmed) the sunset gun too soon.
XXII
I HAVE trod the upward and the downward slope;
I have endured and done in days before;
I have longed for all, and bid farewell to hope;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: bit he got to eat, nor got no sicker of a woman's
society than poor old Reginald did. After Regi-
nald had been charmed a while, it would be the
glass eater's turn. Which he really eat it, and the
doctor says that kind always dies before they is
fifty. I never knowed his right name, but what
he went by was The Human Ostrich.
Watty's wife was awful jealous of Mrs. Ostrich,
fur she got the idea she was carrying on with Watty.
One night I hearn an argument from the fenced-
off part of the tent Watty and his wife slept in.
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