| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: linen wrapped up in the old blue and white blanket, in my old
carriage, and they thought what they thought."
Eudora laughed faintly. She had a gentle humor. "It was
somewhat laughable, too," she observed. "The Lancaster girls and
I have had our little jests over it, but I felt that I could not
deceive you."
Lawton looked bewildered. "But that is a real baby in there," he
said, jerking an elbow toward the other room.
"Oh yes," replied Eudora. "I adopted him yesterday. I went to
the Children's Home in Elmfield. Amelia Lancaster went with me.
Wilson drove us over. I know a nurse there. She took care of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: over; they were in no condition for sleep. The first question was,
Who could the citizen have been who gave the stranger the twenty
dollars? It seemed a simple one; both answered it in the same
breath -
"Barclay Goodson."
"Yes," said Richards, "he could have done it, and it would have been
like him, but there's not another in the town."
"Everybody will grant that, Edward--grant it privately, anyway. For
six months, now, the village has been its own proper self once more-
-honest, narrow, self-righteous, and stingy."
"It is what he always called it, to the day of his death--said it
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
