| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: her and where she orter fit in to make sense it kind
o' tickled me all over. And many's the time
afterward, when me and the doctor had lost track
of each other, and they was quite a spell people
got to thinking I was a tramp, I've went into these
here Andrew Carnegie libraries in different towns
jest as much to see if they had anything fitten to
read as fur to keep warm.
Well, we went easing over toward the Indiany
line, and we was having a purty good time. They
wasn't no work to do you could call really hard,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: than arouse the household, I went to the club. I was at the office
early the next morning and admitted myself. McKnight rarely
appeared before half after ten, and our modest office force some
time after nine. I looked over my previous day's mail and waited,
with such patience as I possessed, for McKnight. In the interval
I called up Mrs. Klopton and announced that I would dine at home
that night. What my household subsists on during my numerous
absences I have never discovered. Tea, probably, and crackers.
Diligent search when I have made a midnight arrival, never reveals
anything more substantial. Possibly I imagine it, but the
announcement that I am about to make a journey always seems to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: kinsman had more reasons for taking offence at the
reception of his suit than regarded his interest and honour, yet
he could neither complain nor be surprised that it should be so.
He contented himself, therefore, with repeating, that his
attachment was to Miss Ashton personally; that he desired neither
wealth nor aggrandisement from her father's means and influence;
and that nothing should prevent his keeping his engagement,
excepting her own express desire that it should be relinquished;
and he requested as a favour that the matter might be no more
mentioned betwixt them at present, assuring the Marquis of A----
that he should be his confidant or its interruption.
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