| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: the rest of it.
The "Petrel" had been in the harbor but a few days, and on this
evening a dance was given at the hotel in honor of her arrival.
It was to be a cotillon, and Nat Ridgeway was going to lead with
Josie Herrick. There had been a coaching party to Tia Juana that
day, and Miss Herrick had returned to the hotel only in time to
dress. By 9:30 she emerged from the process--which had involved
her mother, her younger sister, her maid, and one of the hotel
chambermaids--a dainty, firm-corseted little body, all tulle,
white satin, and high-piled hair. She carried Marechal Niel
roses, ordered by wire from Monterey; and about an hour later,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: pockets. What could be done about that? He really ought to have
sent him something; if it was only a post-office order for five
bob, enough to prove that he was kept in mind, enough to keep him
in hope, beer, and tobacco. 'But what would you have?' thought
Morris; and ruefully poured into his hand a half-crown, a florin,
and eightpence in small change. For a man in Morris's position,
at war with all society, and conducting, with the hand of
inexperience, a widely ramified intrigue, the sum was already a
derision. John would have to be doing; no mistake of that. 'But
then,' asked the hell-like voice, 'how long is John likely to
stand it?'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: value. Listen me, Meester Tansee. At the age of twenty-three I arrive
in Mexico from Spain. When? In the year fifteen hundred nineteen, with
the /soldados/ of Hernando Cortez. I come to thees country seventeen
fifteen. I saw your Alamo reduced. It was like yesterday to me. Three
hundred ninety-six year ago I learn the secret always to leeve. Look
at these clothes I war--at these /diamantes/. Do you theenk I buy them
with the money I make with selling the /chili-con-carne/, Meester
Tansee?"
"I should think not," said Tansey, promptly. Torres laughed loudly.
"/Valgame Dios/! but I do. But it not the kind you eating now. I make
a deeferent kind, the eating of which makes men to always leeve. What
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