| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: munched away, and drank some more tea.
`Speak, won't you!' cried the King. 'How are they getting on
with the fight?'
Hatta made a desperate effort, and swallowed a large piece of
bread-and-butter. `They're getting on very well,' he said in a
choking voice: `each of them has been down about eighty-seven
times.'
`Then I suppose they'll soon bring the white bread and the
brown?' Alice ventured to remark.
`It's waiting for 'em now,' said Hatta: `this is a bit of it
as I'm eating.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Have you the time to come with me?" Sara Lee asked doubtfully. "I want
you to come, of course, but if your work will suffer -"
He held out his letter to her.
"I shall go away," he said, "while you read it. And perhaps you will
not destroy it, because - I should like to feel that you have it always."
He went away at once, saluting as he passed other officers, who gravely
saluted him. On the deck of the hospital ship the invalid touched his
cap. Word was going about, in the stealthy manner of such things, that
Henri whose family name we may not know, was a brave man and doing brave
things.
The steamer had not yet cast off. As usual, it was to take a flying
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: formula, written by his brother's hand. There was no pos-
sible doubt of the authenticity of this letter, nor of the
identity of the courier. Though Ogareff's countenance had
at first inspired the Grand Duke with some distrust, he let
nothing of it appear, and it soon vanished.
The Grand Duke remained for a few minutes without
speaking. He read the letter slowly, so as to take in its
meaning fully. "Michael Strogoff, do you know the con-
tents of this letter?" he asked.
"Yes, your Highness. I might have been obliged to
destroy it, to prevent its falling into the hands of the
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