| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: listening to the happy chatter, he heard her ask if he had got
her a job. At sight of him she cried excitedly: "Oh, Uncle
Martin! You can't think how I adore my beautiful room! And Bill
says it was you who first thought of building it for me. You old
darling! You and Aunt Rose are the best people in the whole wide
world. How can I ever thank you?"
"I'll tell you," he smiled, "forget all about that job and just
stay around here and make us all young. Time enough to work when
you have to."
Mrs. Wade noticed how Bill's eyes widened at these words, so
unlike his father, and soon she was acutely aware of her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: upon his flowers, those yellow cups of the prickly pear. At
length she had risen impatiently, caught up the flowers, gone
with them to the open window,-and then, after all, set them with
pains in water.
But to-day Bear Creek was over. She was going home now. By the
week's end she would be started. By the time the mail brought him
her good-by letter she would be gone. She had acted.
To Bear Creek, the neighborly, the friendly, the not
comprehending, this move had come unlooked for, and had brought
regret. Only one hard word had been spoken to Molly, and that by
her next-door neighbor and kindest friend. In Mrs. Taylor's house
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: Again Wendy forgot herself.
"Never!" she cried, and bobbed.
"What was that?"
But they could see nothing. They thought it must have been a
leaf in the wind. "Do you agree, my bullies?" asked Hook.
"There is my hand on it," they both said.
"And there is my hook. Swear."
They all swore. By this time they were on the rock, and
suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily.
"Where is the redskin?" he demanded abruptly.
He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was
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