| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: things besides. And he paid for his schooling.
Perhaps, in some hazy way, he fancied that it was fine and
impressive, that it gave him a status among men, and was altogether
the thing to do. It was nobody's business to warn Pluffles that he
was unwise. The pace that season was too good to inquire; and
meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
Pluffles' Colonel should have ordered him back to his regiment when
he heard how things were going. But Pluffles had got himself
engaged to a girl in England the last time he went home; and if
there was one thing more than another which the Colonel detested,
it was a married subaltern. He chuckled when he heard of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: Wetzel was good fer the whole tribe. All you'd had to do was to drag the dead
Injuns aside and give him elbow room."
Wetzel joined them at this moment, and they hurried back to the block-house.
The firing had ceased on the blur. They met Sullivan at the steps of the Fort.
He was evidently coming in search of them.
"Zane, the Indians and the Britishers are getting ready for more determined
and persistent effort than any that has yet been made," said Sullivan.
"How so?" asked Silas.
"They have got hammers from the blacksmith's shop, and they boarded my boat
and found a keg of nails. Now they are making a number of ladders. If they
make a rush all at once and place ladders against the fence we'll have the
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: could afford to wait results which enterprising persons who involve
themselves are forced to abandon to luckier successors.
Du Bousquier now posed as a banker. This miniature Lafitte was a
partner in all new enterprises, taking good security. He served
himself while apparently serving the interests of the community. He
was the prime mover of insurance companies, the protector of new
enterprises for public conveyance; he suggested petitions for asking
the administration for the necessary roads and bridges. Thus warned,
the government considered this action an encroachment of its own
authority. A struggle was begun injudiciously, for the good of the
community compelled the authorities to yield in the end. Du Bousquier
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