| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: was like a kind of blue jelly. How hard it was, too, to turn down those
stiff sheets; you simply had to tear your way in. If everything had been
different, Fenella might have got the giggles...At last she was inside, and
while she lay there panting, there sounded from above a long, soft
whispering, as though some one was gently, gently rustling among tissue
paper to find something. It was grandma saying her prayers...
A long time passed. Then the stewardess came in; she trod softly and
leaned her hand on grandma's bunk.
"We're just entering the Straits," she said.
"Oh!"
"It's a fine night, but we're rather empty. We may pitch a little."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: side of the crag and found the opening through the
still eddying waters. The hole through the roof she
had long ago plugged and covered with earth and dry
leaves.
She carried her lantern and spade to the further
end of her storehouse and dug a hole in the earth about
two feet in depth. The earth she carefully placed in a
heap.
"That's the place!" she giggled excitedly.
She left her lantern burning, dropped again on the
soft, mould-covered earth and quickly emerged on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: If the news was a surprise Gregory gave no evidence of it, except
to comment:
"You're a capable person, aren't you? I'll bet you could tune a
piano if you were put to it."
He carried the situation well, the reporter had to admit; the only
evidence he gave of strain was that the hands with which he lighted
a cigarette were unsteady. He surveyed the obscure hotel at which
the cab stopped with a sneering smile, and settled his collar as he
looked it over.
"Not advertising to the world that you're in town, I see."
"We'll do that, just as soon as we're ready. Don't worry."
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