| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: "There it is!" I says. We jumped back behind a bush shivering,
and Tom says:
"'Sh!--don't make a noise."
It was setting on a log right in the edge of a little
prairie, thinking. I tried to get Tom to come away,
but he wouldn't, and I dasn't budge by myself. He said
we mightn't ever get another chance to see one, and he
was going to look his fill at this one if he died for it.
So I looked too, though it give me the fan-tods to do it.
Tom he HAD to talk, but he talked low. He says:
"Poor Jakey, it's got all its things on, just as he said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: [Exit.]
ACT II. SCENE IV. Arragon. a Room of State in
the Court.
[Enter the King, Segasto, the Shepherd, and the Clown,
with others.]
KING.
Shepherd, thou hast heard thin accusers;
Murther is laid to thy charge.
What canst thou say? thou hast deserved death.
MUCEDORUS.
Dread sovereign, I must needs confess,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: of Catherine's heart; and in the embrace of each, as she
stepped from the carriage, she found herself soothed beyond
anything that she had believed possible. So surrounded,
so caressed, she was even happy! In the joyfulness
of family love everything for a short time was subdued,
and the pleasure of seeing her, leaving them at first
little leisure for calm curiosity, they were all seated
round the tea-table, which Mrs. Morland had hurried
for the comfort of the poor traveller, whose pale and
jaded looks soon caught her notice, before any inquiry
so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.
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